Word: fascistically
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...first seven years of the U.S. occupation of Japan, the military administration kept the islands under lock and key. No critical news escaped the previously fascist state, which was seen before the war as entirely unreceptive to democracy. All of the journalism sent to the world, and especially to America, was delivered via the military news agency, Stars and Stripes. Millions of letters were censored, if not destroyed...
DIED. LADY DIANA MOSLEY, 93, most scandalous and, some thought, most beautiful of the six famous Mitford sisters; in Paris. She left her first husband, heir to the Guinness brewing fortune, to run away with Sir Oswald Mosley, the widely hated head of Britain's fascist party. After spending some of the war years in a London prison, she and her husband moved to Paris, where she continued to dazzle her frequent guests and write rigorous book reviews. Of Hitler, she said, in 2000, "I was fond of him. Very, very fond...
VIETNAM WAR Battlefield Protests Troops saw the quagmire before their leaders did. In 1965 a lieutenant was court-martialed for marching in a protest with a sign calling President Johnson a "fascist aggressor...
...began singing loud Catholic folk music, waving red-and-white checkerboard flags, wearing shirts of the same colors, passing close to Serb military men who didn’t look at all amused by these outbursts. The same flag remembered largely as the symbol of Croatia’s fascist regime during World War II, under which proper Croats made refugees out of some 300,000 Serbs less than 100 miles away, was now being waved in the faces of Bosnian Serbs, whose reputation is well-publicized in America and elsewhere courtesy of Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and their...
...wish he were with us now; our times cry out for someone with Orwell's gifts of clear-eyed observation and analysis. What would he have thought, I wonder, of American policy in Afghanistan and Iraq, which uses essentially imperialist means to defeat fascist regimes and rebuild nations ravaged by them? Orwell was not a pacifist. He had lived long enough among the poor in Britain and France to understand the inequities of the liberal democracies, but he had a splendid contempt for those unwilling to defend them against a greater evil. If he believed that rogue states or radical...