Re: "fighting fascism at the wrong time"...

The official term actually used in the McCarthy era for the Abraham Lincoln
Battalion members was "premature anti-fascists."
                                                William Mandel

"colin s. cavell" wrote:

> BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
> In the state of New Hampshire...
>
> In today's (February 18, 2001) Springfield, Massachusetts "Sunday
> Republican", page A20, is an Associated Press story by Stephen Frothingham
> entitled "Spanish Civil War plaque exhumes Cold War feelings".
>
> The story reports on a controversy now going on in the state of New
> Hampshire over a Statehouse plaque erected last week and then immediately
> taken down following an editorial in the notoriously reactionary paper
> "The Union Leader" which attacked the plaque the morning it was to be
> unveiled.  The plaque itself honors 12 New Hampshire citizens who fought
> with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
> against General Francisco Franco who, in his coup d'etat against the
> Spanish government, was aided by his fascist allies, Hitler and Mussolini.
> Historians have viewed it as the opening salvo of World War II.  In the
> article, Frothingham reports:
>
>      The fact that America fought fascism later does not validate the
>      defiance of those who fought in Spain, said Rep. Tony Soltani,
>      R-Epsom.  "These people were fighting fascism at the wrong time."
>
> In its second editorial on the controversy, the "Union Leader" today
> issued more fodder for its presumed mass readership which can be viewed
> at <http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=12281>.
>
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> Colin S. Cavell                        Comrades of the International Brigades:
> Department of Political Science        Political reasons, reasons of State,
> Thompson Tower                         the welfare of that same cause for 
>which
> Box 37520                              you offered your blood with boundless
> University of Massachusetts            generosity, are sending you back, some
> Amherst, MA  01003-7520                of you to your own countries and others
> Internet:  cscpo@polsci.umass.edu      to forced exile. You can go proudly.
> Voice:  (413) 546-3408                 You are the heroic example of
> http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~cscpo   democracy's solidarity and universality
>                                        ...  We shall not forget you, and when
>                                        the olive tree of peace puts forth its
>                                        leaves again, entwined with the laurels
>                                        of the Spanish Republic's victory -
>                                        come back! ..."
>
>                                          --1938 farewell to the departing
>                                             international volunteers by
>                                                   "La Pasionaria" -
>                                             Dolores Ibarurri (1895-1989)
>
> 
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