General Confederation of Labor, in Italy, 29,37, 4i. 48Gentile, Giovanni, Italian philosopher, 35—36;Mussolini apologist, 69—70; 222, 224"German disease," 22, 75German Workers' party, 128-29; changesname and draws up program of Twenty-Five Points, 130Germany, as a federation, 10, 79—81; itscapitalist system, 82-83; effects of loss ofthe war, 92—98; militarism as an industry,102; its collapse after defeat, 113; policiesof successive governments, 125-26; publicdebt, 134; as a bankrupt nation, 224Gibson, Henry Richard, Congressman fromTennessee, on mission of the United States,219Gilbert, Richard Vincent, economist, 182Gilbert, Seymour Parker, Agent General ofReparations, 97Giolitti, Giovanni, Italian politician, 16, 33,37-38, 41, 43, 51, 60, 62, i32-33» i7i> 178Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de, 1 y 5Goebbels, Joseph, joins National Socialistparty, 131; 138, 150Goering, Hermann, joins National Socialistparty, 131; 138, 150, 156Grand Council of the Fascist party, 64Grey of Fallodon, Earl, quoted, 215—16Hague, Frank, Mayor of Jersey City, 151Ham and Eggs crusade in California, 163Hamlet, cited, 46Hansen, Dr. Alvin Harvey, economist, 180;economic adviser of Federal Reserve Board,182; his Dual Consumptive Economy, 188;on spending borrowed money, 235-36; 202Harper's, on German budget, 134, 136; on theHitler financial operations, 183, 185Harrer, Karl, German journalist, 128-29, 150Harriman, Henry Ingraham, president of theChamber of Commerce of United States,quoted on the national economy, 198—99Hentze, Margot, on Italian public spending,14, 178Herald Tribune (N.Y.), on Germany's publicdebt, 134; on military service, 205Hess, Rudolf, joins National Socialist party, 131Himmler, Heinrich, 150Hindenburg, Paul von, appoints Hitler asChancellor of Germany, 133, 146; governsby decree, 143—44; dismisses ChancellorBruening, 145; dies, 146; 232Hines, James, American politician, 151History of the German Republic, by ArthurRosenberg, quoted, 95—96Hitchcock, Dal, on German finances, inHarper's, 136, 188Hitler, Adolf, persecution of the Jews, 68;anti-Semitism an article of faith, 76; hisMe in Kampf cited, 79; becomes a memberof the German Workers' party, 128; hiscontribution of doctrine, 129; interest inGerman Army, 130; arrested in beer-hallPutsch, 132; appointed Chancellor, 133;creates full-blast employment, 136-37; consolidatesoffice of Chancellor with Presidencyand rules by decree, 146; his dictatorship,147 et seq.; his financial program,183—84; disguised admiration for him, 223—24; 1-2, 66, 74, 77, 88, 94, 98, 114, 123,127, 131, 138-45, 221, 237, 252-53, 256Hoar, George Frisbie, senator from Massachusetts,shocked at United States imperialism,216, 218—19Hobbs, Samuel Francis, congressman fromAlabama, on military service, 204Hobson, John Atkinson, English socialist, 164,255Hoover, Herbert Clark, President of theUnited States, appropriations of his administration,174; abolishes codes of practicein industry, 191; sets up commissions,197; 176, 198Hopkins, Harry, 249Hopkins, Prof. Washburn, on imperialism, 216Hugenberg, Alfred, 138-39, 148-49, 151, 156Huston, Luther A., N.Y. Times correspondent,quoted on conscription, 211Illiteracy in Italy, jImperialism, infecting Italy, 20, 22; Europeanbackground, 23; in full flower in Italy, 39;56-57; in America, 213-14Inflation in Germany, 91-92Inquisition cited, 35International Executive Agreements, by WallaceMcClure, quoted, 249"Internationalism," 213-14Interstate Commerce Commission, 189"Isolationism," 213, 21 jItaly, as the laboratory of fascism, 4 et seq.;defeats Turkey in war for Libya, 38-39;in World War I, 40; her "Beveridge Plan,"41; a land of small states, 79z6 7
Jacobins of France mentioned, 25James, William, American philosopher, on universalmilitary service, 209-10Jarres, Dr. Karl, chief burgomaster of Duisberg,95Jaurès, Jean, French socialist, 101Jews, persecution of, 2, 151; by Hitler, 68,132, 152; their property in Germany confiscated,136; 129-30, 133, 165, 254"Jobs for All" plan of Vice-President Wallace,194Johnson, Gen. Hugh, and NRA, 169Jones, Jesse, Secretary of Commerce, on expendituresof the Board of Economic Warfare,246-47Journal of Commerce (Chicago), interviewwith Dr. Hansen, 202, 235Junkers, their dominance of Germany, 88;support of Hitler, 232; 99—101, 149Kahn, Otto Hermann, his commendation ofMussolini quoted, 72Kemal Pasha, Mustapha, as a dictator, 76, 165Keynes, John Maynard (Lord Keynes), 180,185, 187, 2jjKeyserling, Hermann, 154King, Bolton, on Italian taxation, 16Kipling, Rudyard, cited, 36; his Recessionalmentioned, 209Kleinwächter, Prof. Friedrich, 109Know Nothings, 162Kock, Eric, German socialist, 133, 151Krupp's, munitions manufacturer, 102, 106,132Kuliscio£f, Anna, 38Ku Klux Klan, 162Kultur, its veneration, 155Kun, Bela, headed Red government in Hungary,127Ley, Robert, IJO, 153Life of Bismarck, by Ludwig, cited, ÏOILife of Christ, by Papini, mentioned, 36Lion of Judah in Abyssinia, see MenelekLochner, Louis Paul, Associated Press representativein Berlin, quoted, 150London Economic Conference, 215Long, Huey, cited, éo; his Share-the-Wealthmovement, 169Louis XIV of France cited, 2, 133, 231Louis XV cited, 231Louis XVI, beheaded by the Jacobins, 25;cited, 85Luce, Henry, and the American Century, 221Ludwig, Emil, his Life of Bismarck cited, 101;68Luther, Hans, Chancellor of Germany, 144Machiavelli, Niccolo, cited, 44; doctrinesadopted by Mussolini, 45; 123—24Magliani, Agostino, Italian politician, 14, 178Malatesta, Enrico, Italian anarchist, 39Mann, Erika and Klaus, critics of Hitler, 79,132-33Mann, Thomas, German novelist, father of thepreceding, 155—56March on Rome, 48Marshall, Gen. George Catlett, army Chief ofStaff, on military service, 204Marx, Karl, doctrines cited, 30; quoted onGermany's capitalist system, 82Matteotti, Giacomo, Italian socialist, assassinated,48, 63-64, 70Matthews, Herbert Lionel, N.Y. Times correspondentin Italy, 24; his early admirationfor Mussolini admitted in his bookThe Fruits of Fascism, 73Maurras, Charles, 36Mazzini, Giuseppe, Italian revolutionist, 4, 22,Labor market and the army, 102-04Labrioli, Arturo, Italian socialist, 38Lamont, Thomas William, his praise of Mussolini,71Laski, Harold Joseph, political economist, onthe British Parliament, 235Leadership principle, in Italy, 66-67; 159League of Nations, 213Le Bon, Gustave, his book The Crowd: aStudy of the Popular Mind, 45Lenin, Nikolai, cited, 58Leo XIII, Pope, his encyclical Rerum novarum,10268McClure, Wallace, his International ExecutiveAgreements quoted, 249McKellar, Kenneth, senator from Tennessee,on the uselessness of the AppropriationsCommittee, 247Mein Kamþf, Hitler's autobiography, 79, 129,132, 138Menelek, Lion of Judah in Abyssinia, 23; attackedby Italians, 26; defeats them atAdowa, 27Meriam, Dr. Lewis, on presidential spending,236
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AS WE GO MARCHINGBY JOHN T. FLYNNPr
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CONTENTSPreface by Ronald Radoshvii
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PREFACEby Ronald RadoshThe former P
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merits that preceded" Hitler, Flynn
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spending was most prolific for mili
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Flynn's prototype American fascist
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witnesses and I have sought to stud
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PART ONETHE SOIL OF FASCISM:ITALYI
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understand is that these fascist di
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during the next sixty-two years bec
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forming to the general pattern of W
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tion of economic laws and out of ce
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each reasonably within the mental g
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money was concerned. But he proved
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an invention of present-day reforme
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great remittances of cash from her
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a national economic necessity. Then
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for imperialism. For eighteen years
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more impressed by the disturbing fa
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internal troubles. He provided a pr
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themselves. The movement marked a t
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workers and all would be workers. T
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of Milanese syndicalism and the ric
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the corrupt politicians who ruled t
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must not enclose itself within the
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ous fruits for Italy now. Yet the e
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The soldiers streamed back to the c
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Over all this the great Russian bol
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Mussolini, whose chief aim was powe
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trade and professional estates alon
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save that ancient one—more and mo
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summons by violent measures which c
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every section—rushed with their d
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countries a party calling for a rig
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commanding the love of the people.
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government is the opposite of this.
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the practical men and that the worl
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Vatican, said in 1936 that all the
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movement. Had fascism entered Germa
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younger critics and victims of Hitl
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without success. Even after an atte
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grew in virulence as a social irrit
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evils. What, actually, had happened
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came the paradise ot state-owned en
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Of this amount 96,929,000,000, or 6
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steel production was back to the pr
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agriculture, and great sums were sp
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foreigners. It was these foreign lo
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machine. By militarism I mean that
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and were called "democrats," they p
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in taxes were required in order to
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in extent, imposes a system, not me
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one of the most destructive intelle
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control better adapted to their app
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German romantic school of philosoph
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for poverty? To even debate whether
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evolutionary episodes, but in a spi
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welfare institutions, and to extend
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lend. But the mainstay of borrowing
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fascism may rise thus. We have but
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system, whose planning must be prot
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