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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the West End Women's 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...
...rich Po Valley and on the sunlit Roman plains, a strike call went out last week to 400,000 braccianti (landless farmhands). They wanted a nationwide contract, with better pay and job security, between their unions and the landowners. Months of collective bargaining had ended in deadlock-and Italy's most disturbing disorders since the Red riots of early...
Along these same Roman sidewalks, in 1948's spring, Red mobs had marched with clenched fists and Marxist hymns. Last week the proprietor of a jewelry shop on the Piazza Colonna could say: "When the Reds called their last general strike [in February], they came to me and said,, 'You better close down.' I told them...
...bishop went on. The chief obstacles before mankind at the present time, he cried, are "overpopulation and starvation," rather than "racialism and war." He blamed this sorry state of affairs on "the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and the need for cannon fodder affirmed by the new Western religions of nationalism [which] are producing overpopulation in Western civilization...
...begins to build up when Tommy (Bobby Driscoll), a tenement kid with a habit of telling tall tales, sees a murder. When he tells his sober, hardworking parents (Barbara Hale and Arthur Kennedy), they do not believe him; neither do the police. But the murderers (Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman) get wind of Tommy's knowledge and decide...