Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1922 at least seven assassins have tried to kill Dictator Benito Mussolini. Last week 38-year-old Bruno Simoni, former inmate of a Rome insane asylum, shot and wounded a Fascist militiaman guarding the Dictator's Villa Torlonia on Rome's Via Nomentana. Said press reports from Rome: The man was waiting for a chance at Premier Mussolini. Said an official Italian communique: It was the act of a madman who simply happened to be in the vicinity of the Premier's house...
...Physicist," and the omission has had repercussions which already have increased the gravity of the initial offense. Scientists from all over the country have been endorsing Bridgman's stand until now it seems likely that this individual protest may well become the spearhead of a concerted anti-fascist attack on the part of the nation's scientific leaders. Such action would not only fail to achieve its avowed end, but would in reality have results quite opposite to those desired by the earnest physics professor...
...Bridgman sanctum sanctum, it is being sane rather than romantic, to admit that the dictatorships can easily obtain the required information at second hand. But the most telling criticism levelled at the recent ban is not one of impracticality. By endeavoring to combat fascism by means of a typical fascist technique, the learned professor is setting a precedent which may easily lead to less harmless abuses of the American tradition of freedom. From prohibition of fascists in specific laboratories to a prohibition extending to graduate courses is no long step; from there the virus may spread to whole universities...
Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, threw down the gauntlet to the totalitarian states today in one of the most outspoken denunciations of the Fascist states yet made by anyone in high Faculty circles...
Emphasizing that he made his stand entirely in his individual capacity and not in connection with a university policy, Bridgman bombarded the totalitarian states with his " 'Manifesto' by a Physicist" in which he stated that he has decided to close his laboratory to visits from citizens of Fascist governments...