Word: spivak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newshawk John L. Spivak set out last year to peek under the lids of Europe's dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
Italy's tyrants, suggests Spivak, are clowns, its people poltroons. Benito Mussolini has the worst economic situation in Europe and the least rebellion to contend with. Nevertheless, though every Fascist officer says, "There are no strikes in Italy," Spivak dug out records of 153 illegal strikes under Fascism. The humblest Italian is paralyzed with fear by the secret police ("The Bats") headed by an imitation Mussolini. Another imitation Mussolini, handsome President Tullio Cianetti of the Confederation of Labor, conceded that "Fascism has not abolished the class struggle or class distinctions." Mussolini, says Spivak, has smashed the middle classes, degraded...
Best reporting-John L. Spivak's articles on Nazi and anti-Semitic activities in the U. S., in the New Masses...