Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bradley, a member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee which aided the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, urged the audience to recognize the prevalent tendency in this country which he claimed is toward a fascist state and preparation for war. He advocated a "return to the old ideals...
Bradley was removed from his position as head of the German department at New York University when the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee's national executive council, of which he is a member was cited by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to turn over a list of the Spanish refugees they had helped to house...
...burbling of the American governor is one of the thoughts behind the savage crack that one honest, deeply anti-Fascist Munich businessman made to me: "Despite all the reeducation, sometimes it seems that Military Government is determined to convince Germans again that they really are a superior race...
Beniamino Gigli, 58, still one of the world's great tenors, who left the Met in 1939 ("I do not like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
Next day, 332 delegates met in the same hall to create its Communist-front successor: American Youth for Democracy. It was to be, according to Y.C.L. ex-President Max Weiss's prospectus, an "advanced anti-fascist youth organization in which Communists play a leading role...