Word: fascistically
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...censure Vice President Timothy Jenkins for saying, "I think we now have unmasked in the final reality what exactly exists behind the facade of the conservative image, because we now see the base and debased colonial, repressive, slave- owning kind of mentality that can exist in a hard, fascist- type regime...
Having prudently brought along an overnight bag, Russell obviously hoped to go to jail ("If you condemn us," said he, "you'll be helping our cause"), and Magistrate Bertram Reece obliged. Amid gallery cries of "Fascist!" and "Shame!", he imposed a two-month sentence, later reduced to one week for health reasons. Then the frail old man was whisked un ceremoniously away (unknown hands had written three hasty words in the dust on his Black Maria: "Ban the bomb") to Brixton jail. It was a homecoming: Russell had spent six months of World War I there for his pacifist...
Whose Martyr? As always, Castro had his own explanation. The regime said that the crowd outside the church was really composed of pro-Castro Cubans, incensed at the "fascist priests" and "hooligans" holed up inside with weapons. One priest had fired into the crowd outside, according to the official explanation, killing 17-year-old Arnaldo Socorro. Claiming Socorro as a martyr, the government trucked some 50,000 workers to his funeral. What the Communists did not explain was that Socorro was a militant member of Cuba's Young Catholic Workers...
...helped get the project started: Jewish Novelist Ilya (Out of Chaos] Ehrenburg, another man with a decided talent for landing on his feet. Although Stalin liquidated nearly every member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Ehrenburg was spared; it was even rumored that he personally fingered fellow members as Zionists...
...develops it into a pleasant political comedy, and Daniel (Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend in Sussex-who domi nates the audience as a waving cobra fascinates a mouse. With his small, reptilian grin and oily suppleness, he conveys the immemorial...