Merriam, Dr. Charles, on streamlining government,236Metaxas, John, as a fascist dictator, 2, 76, 164Militarism, in Europe, its economic effects,18—19; gains foothold in Italy; 23; in fullflower there, 39; as a modern institution,98 et seq.; banned by Treaty of Versailles,127; reintroduced by Hitler, 142; advantagesof compulsory military service, 203-05; bills for universal service in Congress,205—06; 56—J7, 143. See also footnote onPlutarch, p. 19Militarism, book by Ferrero, quoted, 16Moneta, Ernesto T., Italian pacifist, 38Monopolies in United States under attack,189-91Movies as an instrument of corporative control,6jMüller, Hermann, Chancellor of Germany, tfjMurphy, Charles Francis, American politician,cited, 60Mussolini, Benito, editor of the Avanti, socialistpaper, 39; establishes Poþolo d*Italia,40; organizes the Fasci di Combattimento,44; proclaims program, 4j; becomes Premier,48; budget problems, 50-51; his CorporativeState, 54—55; glorifying war, 56;beginning his dictatorship, 62; charged withassassination of Matteotti, 64; his attack onEngland criminal, says Churchill, 73; likenedhimself to Mustapha Kemal, 76; 1, 3-4, 38,114, 123-24, 131-3*, i4i-43» if*. I54» if*.159, 163-65, 171, 184, 197, 252-53, 256Napoleon, his fall, 99—100Napoleon III, revives conscription, 100National City Bank mentioned, 225National Recovery Act, 248National Resources Planning Board, 182; abolishedby Congress, 183; on expenditures fordefense, 212; 187, 202—03, 235—36National Socialism, 3; definition of, 161 etseq.; original program, 130; 133, 146, 156National Socialist party, in; becomes rulerof Germany, 131National Socialist German Workers' party, itsprogram of Twenty-Five Points, 130National Youth Administration, 208Nationalist Association of Italy, 37Naumann, Friedrich, German socialist, 41Neumann, Sigmund, on permanent revolution,120269New Deal, 7, 171, 17J, 179, 182, 189, 200,*3J. 254New Era, 7, 168, 195New Republic, on militarism, 210-11; 182,191, 201Nicholas, Czar of Russia, cited, 2, 85Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, his doctrinesapproved by Mussolini, 45; cited, 121, 123;his myth of the superman, 124; 36, x54—55Nitti, Francesco Saverio, Italian Premier, 62Norton, Mary Teresa, congresswoman fromNew Jersey, 203NRA (National Recovery Administration) ofGen. Hugh Johnson, 169; declared unconstitutional,179, 199, 239; a colossal failure,199; 198, 247-48Oh, Yeah! book on the depression, 166Okey, Thomas, on Italian taxation, 16Old-age pension system in Germany, 86O'Mahoney, Joseph Christopher, senator fromWyoming, on Lend-Lease, 247; 248-49Ortega y Gasset, José, his Revolt of theMasses quoted, 83-84; 8j, 118, 120Packard, Eleanor and Reynolds, U.P. correspondents,their Balcony Empire quoted,24; 73Papen, Franz von, made Chancellor of Germany,145-46; 148—49Papini, Giovanni, his Life of Christ mentioned,36; 222Pareto, Vilfredo, 45, 66, in, 156Parliament in European states, 5Peace Conference (1898), 104Pendergast, Thomas Joseph, Missouri politician,151Penrose, Boies, cited, 60Pericles cited, 133Perkins, Milo, 201Perris, Herbert, on cost of the German Army,102Philippines, as bad bargain, 216; its resourcesand wealth, 217-18Planning in society, 28, 112, 140, 142-43,191-94, 200Platt Amendment on Cuba, 220Pontine Marshes, in Italy, their draining comparedto America's TVA, 55Popolari, Italian political party, 41, 48, 59Poþolo d'ltalìa, Mussolini's paper, 40, 44Pork-barrel bills in Congress, 238Post (N.Y.), on military service, 208
Power of the purse in the people, 237-38Preissig, Dr. Edward, 78Press in Italy, 5Pribram, Karl, study of monopolies in Europe,29Progress party in Germany, 100-01Prohibition, and its repeal, 229Proportional representation in Italy, 61-62Public spending, by Giolitti, 41-42; by Mussolini,50-52; by Weimar republic, 94; byHitler, 134; in the United States, 172-79,20j-07PWA,256Quay, Matthew Stanley, American politician,cited, 60Radio, as an instrument of corporative control,65Ranshoven-Wertheimer, Dr. Egon, quoted onHitler, 152Rathenau, Walter, German industrialist, 111-12; quoted on planned economy, 113;founded corporations, 114; 155, 190, 203Rauschning, Hermann, break with Nazis, 150;quoted, 153; 138, 142Recessional, by Kipling, mentioned, 209Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 184, 247Red terror, 127Red Week in Italy, 39Reflections on Violence, by Georges Sorel, 30Reicbskreditgesellscbaft, organized by theWeimar republic, 115Reichstag, of the Weimar republic, 117Renaissance, of Italy, 22Renatus, Kuno, his Twelfth Hour of Capitalismcited, 94Reno, Milo, his Farm Holiday, 169Rentenmark, new currency unit in Germany,invented by Schacht, 92Republican (Springfield, 111.), laments supportof United States imperialism, 219Rerum novarum, encyclical of Pope Leo XIII,10Revolt in Germany, 118-20Revolt of the Masses, by José Ortega, quoted,83-84Revolution, European radicals' specialty, 63Reynal & Hitchcock, their edition of MemKampf cited, 79Rhodes, Cecil John, quoted, 215Rhodes, conquered by Italy, 39Rights of Man mentioned, 2927ORisorgimento in Italy, 4, 7-8, 22Rockefeller, John Davidson, and the oil combines,189 ,Roehm, Ernst, joins National Socialist party,131; 138, 149Roman Empire, its re-creation a Mussoliniproject, 56Romanticists, in Italy, 33; in Germany, 120et seq.; in United States, 222 et seq.Romondo, Italian publicist, quoted on Giolitti,60Roosevelt, Mrs. Eleanor, 211Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, President of theUnited States, New Deal cited, 7; hisplanned deficit, 176; financial policy, 189;his scorn of "master minds," 197; seizureof Australian Archipelago, 225; 175, 177198, 211Rosenberg, Alfred, joins National Socialistparty, 131; preaches paganism, 156Rosenberg, Arthur, his History of the GermanRepublic quoted, 95-96Royce, Josiah, on German philosophers, 121222Ruskin, John, concern for the poor, 123cited, 221Sabath, Adolph Joseph, congressman fronIllinois, on military service, 204Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira, Portuguese dietator, 76, 77, 164Salvemini, Dr. Gaetano, on Italian bureaucracy, 11; on Mussolini's budgets, 50-j1his book What to Do with Italy quotec72; i39Sarajevo, Austrian Archduke shot, 40Sarfatti, Margherita Grassini, Mussolini's biographer, 38, 44¯¯45> 47» 49Schacht, Hjalmar, invents the Rentenmark aa new currency unit, 92; his financial jufgling, 135-36; 151. 156, 184Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich voiquoted, 121Schleicher, Gen. Kurt von, made Chancellcof Germany, then ousted, 146; 145, 148-4Schlieffen, Alfred, Count von, on militaieconomies, 104Schmeckebier, Dr. Laurence Frederick, cpresidential spending, 236Schuschnigg, Kurt, Austrian Chancellor, inprisoned by Hitler, 2; his fascist regim163-64Schwarzhoff, Col. Gross von, 104
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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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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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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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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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evils. What, actually, had happened
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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 extent, imposes a system, not me
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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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artisan" of Greece, went through al
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Americans of today can hardly reali
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