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...inhibited childhood, his artistic frustration, fake War record, headaches and schizophrenia constitute excellent personal assets for a dictator. He explains how these handicaps can be turned into heroic myths, explains how to fight Socialism with the catch phrases of Socialism, how to provoke disorder and terror as a pretext to establish order, how to avoid all argument based on rationality, how to exploit the plentiful relics of primitive barbarism which still survive in modern man, and thus turn to Fascist account a Freudian discovery which Socialists naively underrated...
...Freshmen who like to mind other people's business if they can find a logical pretext, who like to write, take plotuces, or to do practical business work, the CRIMSON opens Its doors Wednesday night for the first News, Business, and Photographic competitions from the class...
...misunderstanding." It occurred over a Polish passport law, effective midnight October 29, requiring Polish citizens abroad to revalidate their passports or lose their citizenship. Germany, fearful that many of her estimated 55,000 Polish Jews would thus become virtual "citizens" of Germany, seized on the law as a pretext to get rid of them...
...France, too, is more interested in Czechoslovakia than in Austria, Mussolini may intervene on the side of Germany. Then it would draw in everybody on one pretext or another...
...literature since the Civil War, and a stream of contributions to leftist journals, he had established himself as a partisan but respected critic of letters. He had also become an editor of the New Masses and a known Red. Rensselaer unceremoniously kicked him out on the pretext of "retrenchment,"' but the American Association of University Professors said he had been fired because he was a radical. Since then Hicks has written a biography of Radical John Reed, continued free-lance writing. He once wrote in the New Masses: "If a college professor . . . admits that he is a Communist...