Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA shipments because of U.S. strikes; resentment at the cutting of Italian forests by Allied occupation authorities. All of these contributed to Italian disillusionment with democracy and to the growth of an underground neo-Fascist organization which, rumor says, is headed by Augusto Turati, former Fascist party secretary...
...American Action" is the Ku Klux Klan of the north. Like the Klan, it claims to be everything,--anti-communist, anti-fascist, and pro-American. Patronized by Col. MeCormick and the "Chicago Tribune," it pretends to be the right wing's answer to the Political Action Committee. Its chairman is one Edward A. Hayes, an old "America First Committee" coadjutor who considers himself an expert on communism and subversive activities. At present, while heavily financed by the Republican isolationist bloc in the middle west, "American Action" has been soliciting contributions and a mailing list all over the country with which...
...Adamson requesting information on 'secret' systems of campaign expenditures in connection with CIO-PAC, National Citizens PAC and ICCASP. Today I was served with a subpoena to appear before the Wood-Rankin committee, and produce at that time all files, memoranda, and records related to ICCASP, the joint anti-fascist refugee committee, CIO-PAC and NCPAC...
...sponsor but not a member of the governing body of the joint anti-fascist refugee committee. Therefore, I am led to the conclusion that the subpoena has been issued as an attack against the ICCASP and that the other organizations have been brought in merely to confuse the issue...
...July 22nd issue by mail. As the demand for TIME rose more copies were smuggled in. Their black market price reached the sum of 300 escudos ($12) a copy, and Portuguese paid as much as $2 to rent a copy for 24 hours. Portugal's clandestine anti-Fascist Committee typed translations of the Salazar piece for distribution...