Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole thing was over before a Marxist could say monarcho-fascist-devia-tionist. One afternoon last week, U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey got to his feet in Manhattan Federal Court and announced unexpectedly: "The Government rests." It had completed the main body of its case against the eleven top U.S. Communists who are charged with conspiracy to advocate violent overthrow of the Government...
...Club in Chicago, a mob choked the street. Inside, that night in 1946, a rabble-rousing, unfrocked Roman Catholic priest named Arthur Terminiello (since reinstated) was making a speech. On the platform with Terminiello was his soapbox bullyboy pal, Gerald L. K. Smith. Terminiello incited his audience with a fascist line of invective and bate. The mob outside hurled bricks, stink bombs, bottles and ice picks-through the windows and tried to break in the doors. Chicago police were just barely able to hold them in check and prevent a full-scale battle of the streets. Terminiello was arrested under...
...Communists have exploited the peasants' land hunger for political ends. De Gasperi has countered with the slogan, "We must have land reform, but first we must develop our land." Last summer ECAgriculturists revived the old Fascist program of land reclamation (as it was carried out in the Pontine Marshes) as a sensible way to more productivity and less agrarian discontent. With U.S. prodding and financial help, three districts are being reclaimed; eventually they will account for one-third of the nation's arable land, provide cheap plots for the landless...
Firmer & Faster. For Premier de Gasperi nothing has been achieved without difficulty. He and his ministers have had to learn all the way. They came without experience from political obscurity in the Fascist era to posts of heavy responsibility. They have displayed shrewd political talent, but they still tend to approach economic problems as scholarly theorists rather than as practical politicians. They know that Italy's hope lies in improved farming methods and more industrialization, but they are not able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than...
Fast was one of the 18 members of the Executive Board of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were convicted for contempt of Congress because they would not show their books and records to the House un-American Activities Committee...