Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteen board members of the left-wing Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over their books to the committee. Among the reluctant board members: Chairman Edward K. Barsky, a doctor with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War; Communist-line Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast; Theatrical Producer Herman (The Searching Wind) Shumlin...
...Stein left Paris behind 20 years ago, has since lived in & about Florence. His typically salty reflection: "Some pious Catholic friends thought I ought to be grateful to God because I had during the German occupation and the fascist republic escaped all perils. I said to them that there had been 6,000,000 Jews murdered. Was I to be grateful to God that only 6,000,000 had been murdered...
...office said, "This does not necessarily concern the loyalty of the individuals, but may refer to his discretion or the company he keeps." A few days later, a high U. S. court rules against proceeding with a trial of the score of Americans indicted during the war as pre-fascist seditionists, claiming it would be a travesty on justice...
...Conference for Human Welfare a Red-front group, the report, admittedly timed to coincide with the Conference's sponsorship of a Wallace speech in Washington, receives front-page play from New York to Los Angeles. At the same time, a booklet, "Fascism in Action," a lengthy, documented expose of Fascist activity in this country over the past few years is bottled up in a House committee, probably never to see the inside of a government printing-office. Its sister publication, "Communism in Action," was approved with alacrity and is now available for public distribution...
...present U.S. attitude toward Franco, says Author Hughes, "can only hasten the likelihood of civil war and facilitate the rapid growth of Communism in Spain. . . . The Western democracies have failed to evolve and express a clear, purposeful policy that would free Spain's democratic forces from the deadly Fascist-Communist cross fire in which they have been placed...