Word: fi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colorful Cast. The accused were a strangely assorted crew. Handsome Joe McWilliams, the soapbox fiührer who used to berate the Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling...
...mantle of an unworthy Japan to fall upon her shoulders. Having herself been a victim of exploitation, China has infinite sympathy for the submerged nations of Asia, and toward them China feels she has only responsibilities-not rights. We repudiate the .idea of leadership of Asia because the 'Fiührer principle' has been synonymous with domination and exploitation, precisely as the 'East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere' has stood for a race of mythical supermen lording over groveling subject races...
Through four years at Colgate University and a postgraduate course at Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began to "liquidate the kulaks [successful farmers] as a class," Journalist Hindus dashed over to Russia to see what was happening to his fellow peasants. Result of his observations was Humanity Uprooted, a best-seller whose thesis was that it may be tough to be collectivized by force, tougher still...
...Russia and Japan he brings his firsthand knowledge to bear on the question which may well decide the issue of World War II. What is this new Russian spirit? It is not entirely new. "Fee fi fo fum, I smell Russian blood! For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself in your eyes and slaps you across the face." These words are not from a speech by Stalin. They are the lines the old witch (Baba Yaga) always speaks in the oldest of Russian folk tales...
...second week of October ran out, fogs set in when gales weren't blowing. Still no German invasion of Britain was attempted, and observers concluded fi nally that the Battle of Britain had settled down for the winter into an air and sea war without fancy trimmings. Axis activity in the Balkans and Africa reinforced this view. So did a change in German bombing technique over London. But just to make sure no desperate, seasick hordes would come struggling across the Channel, the R. A. F. and the Royal Navy gave Germany's "invasion bases" along the French...