Word: fascistizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Province of Quebec harbors one of the most antidemocratic, anti-liberal governments in North America. Having passed laws regulating if not prohibiting free speech, a free press and free assembly, the reigning Union Nationale Party has long been friendly to a frankly Fascist movement...
Last May 11. under the leadership of one Belmiro Valverde, Brazil's Fascist Integralistas put on their green shirts under fake naval uniforms and spilled a lot of red blood (mostly their own) trying to take over President Getulio Vargas' Government. They failed, and their leaders were jailed. Several months later, Field Commander Valverde, with the prison guards' connivance, walked out of jail, disappeared...
...Professor is laid in an imaginary small country suggestive of Austria on the eve of Anschluss, Czecho-Slovakia on the eve of Munich. Professor A., greatest living authority on Sophocles, is a democrat who, in order to quell a riot of Fascist and Red students, reminds them that Socrates...
...perhaps the best man who ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...
What the Professor overlooks is the Fascist army mobilized at the border, the fact that his Cabinet is riddled with Fascists, that his mistress is a Fascist spy. Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches on, the Fascist armies are rolling in and the Professor is in prison, marked for execution "while attempting to escape." In plot, The Professor might be called downright hackneyed, but no anti-fascist novel has contained more skilful individual scenes-the Professor looking over a display of stylish gas masks...