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...original plan was to have the nine students here for one semester and then to replace them with nine other Germans next semester. But, Hawkins said, the McCarran Act provision barring former members of fascist groups may prevent any other German students from entering this country. "The students now here might then stay another semester," he said...
Most of the students who are supposed to come in February are former members of the Hitler Youth League. Hawkins points out, however, that practically every German youth joined, even if he was not a convinced fascist...
...section, branch, affiliate, or subdivision" of any "totalitarian party." Under Hitler, nearly every youth was forced to join one or another of the Hitler Youth organizations; nearly every man who worked for a living had to belong to a Nazi-dominated labor union. In Italy, every school was a Fascist school. Officials estimated that the new law would exclude 90% of all Germans, more than half of all Italians. It would bar all repentant Communists, interfere with trade with Yugoslavia, exclude many of the 55,000 German refugees from East Europe, whose admission Congress had just authorized last June...
...orchestra during the Mussolini regime. A German war bride of Philadelphia, returning from a visit to her mother in Germany, was detained because she had belonged to a Hitler youth organization in her teens. The Metropolitan Opera's mezzo-soprano, Fedora Barbieri, was held (she went to a Fascist school...
...power. He reorganized the courts to make justice available to the poor as well as the coffee barons. He gave Brazil the 48-hour week, a minimum wage, pensions, vacations with pay. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress and founded the Estado Novo, an "authoritative democracy" complete with a fascist-type constitution, press censorship, and a home-grown gestapo. When the Nazis swept over Europe in 1940, Vargas proclaimed: "It is not the end of civilization :>ut the beginning, tumultuous and fecund...