Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight the Russians. . . .' When we try to pin down such an opinion, we rarely get satisfaction. As often as not, what we get is a knowing look and a brush-off remark." Actually, said Talk No. 55, Communist ideals "are directly opposite to the stated ideals of fascist dictatorship, and their hope is to drop the appurtenances of dictatorship in the process of democratic evolution...
...asked the police to maintain order," he said, "but they say they'll only intervene if there is trouble. And if we organized the guards, they would accuse us of using fascist methods. The guards are a political luxury that only the Communists and left-bloc parties can afford...
...Plaza de Oriente, Evita praised the "true, distributive democracy" of Spain and Argentina. She contrasted it with the "false, deceptive democracy" of other unnamed nations. The crowd roared encouragement, then slowly, beginning with a core of falangistas in the center of the square, raised arms in the officially abolished Fascist salute. Evita, and the Dictator at her side, saluted them back...
...Novelist Sylvester, himself a Catholic, the "terrible obscurantism" is what made some conservative U.S. Catholics pro-Fascist before the war, because they were ready to believe that Mussolini et al. would stamp out Communism. They were also antiliberal, anti-Negro, and anti-Semitic for a number of reasons, including Irish racial snobbism. As fiction, Moon Gaffney is hardly rnore than earnest and competent, but it is most impressive as a blast against bias, false Irish pride and the local little Father Coughlins...
...sharpest shaft ever aimed at him-that he possessed "the greatest mind of the 14th Century" - did Bertie, as well as Dante, a disservice.* So have the oversimplified pictures of McCormick as a feudal lord of the manor, aping the English aristocrats he professes to detest; as a fascist menace; as "Col. McCosmic," the frustrated military strategist; as a crackpot Midas...