Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's acceptance has been astutely applied to the particular situation. The "ancient ties" uniting universities of the world are indeed "independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time." There is a great distinction between the temporary administration of a fascist organization and an institution whose founding in 1385 preceded even the conception of intense nationalism or of the modern totalitarian state. As such it is right that it be honored...
...have heard that Harvard is a democratic institution, that it looks with stern disfavor on Fascist ideology. Yet there is little student choice --a Freshman feels that the deities were on his side if he is admitted into a House of his second or third preference, and discovers a small sprinkling of his friends there. The arbitrary limitation of eight friends that may be admitted as a group only increases his sense of frustration and feeling of being a misfit...
...Ethiopia's defense. At 8 a. m., with a round moon still high in the sky, operations started with a short advance all along the line. This was to be a white man's battle. Regulars and Blackshirts led the advance, with the native Askaris, on which Fascist de Bono had leaned so heavily last year, forming the reserve. It was also a gunner's battle. Marshal Badoglio is an artilleryman first & last. And last week he showed what he could do with guns. His main headquarters was also the artillery observation post. Every five minutes scouting...
...Since then, the world situation has hardly changed for the better, and Storm Jameson's horrified anger has hardly cooled. Last summer it was still hot enough to make her write (in two months) this bitter account of how even old libertarian England might take the Fascist road...
...England's worst depression, beginning five years ago, had brought a second General Strike and had upped the Fascist National Volunteers to the most powerful armed body in the State. An impotent Labor Government, despairingly voted into office, has just been swept out again on a flood of financial panic and bewildered rioting, and the National Volunteers have hoisted Dictator Frank Hillier into the saddle. At the head of a pasteboard National State Party, with Parliament dissolved and a yes-man Council as his catspaws, Hillier rules England. Royalty has apparently vanished at last. There is no opposition. There...