Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native Catalonia in 1931. He was awarded several first prizes in sculpture by the Catalan Government. His best known works are Maternity and The Three Graces, of which there is a copy in New York and one in Philadelphia. After the fall of Catalonia to Franco's fascist hordes, Fenosa returned to France...
First came the White Russians, who as taxi drivers, doormen or waiters could not forget that they had once been gentlefolk. Next came the people who had laughed loudest at the White Russians, the fugitives from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Then in a swamping human surf came the fugitives from Spain. Czechoslovakia, the Low Countries, France. All of them bore, like a leper's bell, the one ineffaceable possession left them by their ordeal-the mood of quiet desperation, quiet, because its very existence threatened the peace of mind of those who still felt secure; quiet, because...
Next week, in this simple ceremony at the First Unitarian Church of Essex County (Orange, N.J.), Pierre Van Paassen, anti-fascist and best-selling author, will become a Unitarian minister. Van Paassen will not have a church. He plans to write and preach throughout the country in the belief that "a small flame can set an immense heap of wood on fire...
...friend of mine, a writer in northern Italy, who was in the anti-Fascist underground since 1931, wrote soon after the liberation, asking about my wartime broadcasts to Italy, which he regretted to have missed. My answer was that there had been no such broadcasts; all invitations from official or semi-official agencies I had declined, unwilling as I was to connive, even by implications alone, with an Anglo-American policy in Italy and Europe to which I strongly objected...
...joint, tough measures against any American nation that violates "the elementary rights of man" was good stuff, "sound." That didn't mean, explained rugged Spruille, that the U.S. was going to "send the Marines anywhere." But neither would Uncle Sam sit around, hands in pockets, "while the Nazi-fascist ideology against which we fought a war endeavors to entrench itself in this hemisphere...