Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman ancestors of present-day Fascists fought three full-length wars with a first-class Semitic power-Carthage. For 17 years Semitic Generalissimo Hannibal made Italy unsafe for Italians; Scipio, played by Cinemactor Annibale (Hannibal) Ninchi, finally defeated him at Zama, near Carthage. Scipio Africanus reviews this ancient history with Latin enthusiasm, Roman corpses, blazing villas, trumpeting war elephants, clanking swords. Up-to-the-minute double meanings for ardent Fascists: 1) the Semite is still public enemy No. 1; 2) conquered Carthage stood in what is now Fascist-coveted French Tunis...
...unwieldy battle scenes with their elephant charges are too much like a day at the circus, but Fascist directors have lovingly perfected the technique of making killing realistic. Samples: a soldier with a sword piercing his throat, another transfixed by an arrow, an agonized, trumpeting elephant with a spear sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile...
...regimentation in this country might definitely weaken "American democracy. "If Italy joins the Allies (as she might well do), what happens to a crusade for democracy which aims to destroy Nazi while at the same time it strengthens Fascist Italy...
Speaking on the subject "Should We Ignore Racial Differences" at the Town Hall Meeting of the Air Thursday night, Professor Earnest A. Hooton of Harvard University chloroformed his listeners with a demagogic speech smacking strongly of fascist racial theories. . . ." The Daily Worker...
...last half of her book is devoted to the Civil War, which she prefers to describe as a fascist invasion. Though she keeps her account simple and personal, she gives an abundance of the war's history, of which, as head of the Foreign Press Bureau, she is well qualified to speak. She handled the press at Geneva when Spain made its futile appeal before the League, feels that the "cynicism and treachery" of the British and French Governments reached their highest points there. Of the four-month battle of the Ebro: "We fought the last part of that...