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...late 1920s, two young Italian Communists received a directive from Moscow. The Kremlin's order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were sabotaging world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police. For days the two friends debated what to do. One of the men, Palmiro Togliatti, bowed to Moscow and with that act of trusty treachery began rising through the upper echelons to head the Italian Communist Party. The other, Ignazio Silone, refused and later left the party to write Fontamara and Bread...
...visitors with experiences to tell sought safety in the embassy, Mallin was able to put together the story of Castro's police-state terror during the invasion crisis. Under Dictator Batista, the chivato, or informer, was the object of universal hatred; Castro, in the fashion of Communist and fascist dictators, has turned the government stool pigeon into a national industry. Every block has one. In the great invasion roundup of 250,000 Cubans, the informer was apt to be the untipped janitor, the office wasp, the neighborhood malcontent-all of whom now had their chance for revenge...
...said that Beer's name does not appear on the roster of former students at Wiener Neustadt. Beer's vaunted military heroism also faded: veterans of the Socialist Schutzbund (militia), who had defended their Vienna homes for a bloody four days in 1934 against Dollfuss' semi-fascist regime, denied that Beer had fought beside them, nor could any record be found to support his claim that he commanded a Loyalist battalion during the Spanish Civil War. Beer's cultural past vanished as quickly. He had not worked as assistant stage manager at Vienna's elegant...
...breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I. Adolf's father lost his job as a factory manager; young Adolf had to quit college to get a job as a salesman. Like other middle-class youths with a grievance, Adolf Eichmann turned fascist. In Germany on business trips, he thrilled to the sight of brown-shirted Storm Troopers marching beneath swastika banners, and listened avidly to the Munich ravings of another product of Linz, Adolf Hitler. In 1932, when he was 26, Eichmann made the final step: he joined the Nazi Party, which was then illegal...
...agent of the Communist conspiracy"' "That's ridiculous, of course." The society, she added, is "so obviously capable of telling all kinds of falsehoods it seems impossible of making any impression on the American people." ¶Ohio's Democratic Senator Stephen M. Young declared that "the fascist John Birch Society and others like it are as serious-probably more serious-a threat to our security and way of life as internal Communism." But Young opposed a congressional investigation of the society Said he: "Any mercenary demagogue has a right to express his opinions, though distorted, unfounded...