Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a broadcast made shortly after the Germans invaded Russia. It is devoted chiefly to explaining why Russia had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany and why the Red Army was not ready to repel the Nazis ("Of no little importance in this respect is the fact that fascist Germany suddenly and treacherously violated the Non-Aggression Pact she had concluded in 1939 with the U.S.S.R. . . . Naturally, our peace-loving country, not wishing to take the initiative of breaking the pact, could not resort to perfidy"). The last speech proclaims victory ("From now on over Europe will...
...That Dream, On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe. Best-selling novels were The Black Rose and Forever Amber. A big movie hit was Love Letters, a romance about amnesia. A psychologist claimed that Superman provided a beneficent Aristotelian catharsis ; a Jesuit saw in him a fascist archetype. Young girls tried to look like Bacall with a dash of Hepburn. Their elders went in for cosmetics with manic names like Fatal Apple and Havoc. They also favored detachable daintiness features and phantom crotches. In ads as expressive as dreams, fathers forfeited their children's love because of denture breath...
Stevens, speaking on the basis of his two year stay in Russia during 1943-44, claimed that "the Russians have little or no feeling of enmity for the Italian people, but regarded them as the dupes of their fascist leaders...
...plum-plump dictator approached his ninth anniversary as Chief of the Spanish State, the tree was shaken vigorously at a typically spectacular rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...
...form of government in Spain and the policies pursued by that Government are quite properly the concern of the Spanish people. I should be lacking in candor, however, if I did not tell you that I can see no place in the community of nations for governments founded on Fascist principles...