Word: vanguardism
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...American Republics met in Havana last week to face the transoceanic threat of fascism, the struggle of democracy v. fascism was already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard -former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt...
...risky flight to take, for a fleet at sea in wartime would be glad to have its escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...
...HORIZONTAL-Duff Gilfond-Vanguard ($2.50). Onetime Reporter Gil-fond tells with harrowing gaiety of a ten-year fight against encephalitis lethargica ("sleeping sickness"), which in her case took the form of a constant headache so painful that she had to lie down almost all the time. Her descriptions of variously officious, honest, cruel, experimental or decent specialists and the hospital experiences she had in their charge manage to be funny in spite of everything...
...from Canada for World War II, a complete division of 12-16,000 men drawn from all nine Provinces (and including about 100 U. S. volunteers who sang Sousa's Washington Post March upon landing). Navy men remembered the fix Britain was in the last time a Canadian vanguard crossed the water. That was in October 1914, when 33,000 men had to be moved in 31 ships from Quebec, plus one from Newfoundland, one from Bermuda. Unknown to the Germans, the British Navy was then embarrassed by the absence of two battle cruisers in the South Atlantic, chasing...
...from fascist reality, are too often the sort which make a Führer out of every bully. James T. Farrell's Jew-hating young Brooklyn Irishman, a bellicose introvert who sells Father Moylan's Christian Justice, is a convincing individual in Tommy Gallagher's Crusade (Vanguard, $1), but the tract-like limitations of the story are implicit in the original title: Tommy Gallagher-American Storm Trooper. Mari Sandoz's third book, Capital City (Little, Brown, $2.50), lacks even a credible character. A panoramic, pamphlet-pat story of imminent fascism in a Midwest State capital...