Word: fascists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left-Winger. New Representative from Washington State's First District is young Hugh De Lacy, 34, ex-college instructor and left-winger, who once called the draft a "fascist-like measure." Now a shipyard worker, De Lacy methodically changed clothes after work each day to campaign, because, he said, dungarees and tin hat "limit your appeal...
Premier Joseph Stalin laid out the Red Army's objectives: "Now the last, final mission remains for the Red Army, namely to complete, together with the armies of our Allies, the task of defeating the German fascist armies, finishing off the fascist beast in his own lair and raising over Berlin the banner of victory. There is ground to reckon on this task being fulfilled by the Red Army in the near future...
Replied the Kremlin: "For many years the Swiss Government . . . has been pursuing a hostile pro-fascist policy toward the Soviet Union." (Russia had already pulled out of the International Aviation Conference "in Chicago because Switzerland, Spain and Portugal were invited...
...Russians, in their lushest cloak-&-dagger manner, who added a touch of comic melodrama to the last days of the campaign. Izvestia, official Soviet Government newspaper, ran an article headlined: THE ELECTION OF ROOSEVELT GUARANTEED. It is said that the core of Dewey's Republican staff had "pro-Fascist, pro-German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent...
Russian newspapers were already dismissing Budapest as just another milestone on the march to Vienna and Berlin, but it might still be hard to pass. The Germans, backed by the Hungarians of the Fascist Arrow Cross, were digging in for street fighting. Presumably they would fall back on Buda, force the Russians into a difficult (but not impossible) river crossing under the heights crowned by Fortress Hill and the Royal Palace. The Russians could count on their own power, on help from some Hungarians who saw that the affair was over, and now preferred to save their city...