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In reply to the discussion: An-tee-fa? MY Dad in 1945: [View all]DFW
(54,338 posts)11. He left that impression on a LOT of people
Many people ask me why I didn't go into journalism with all the connections he had.
Easy--All they would have been doing my whole career long would be comparing me to him, and he was minor legend of his time. President of the Gridiron Club, getting cited by Senators and Congressmen for fairness in the Congressional Record, winning the Stokes award, etc etc. I kept some of his connections (Helen Thomas remained a friend to the end, for example), but I never even attempted to fill shoes that were meant to be left unfilled.
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This is a nation, and government, with a history of convicting people of "premature antifascism"...
Journeyman
Sep 2017
#1
I think "premature antifascist" references the period between mid-1939 and mid-1941,
struggle4progress
Sep 2017
#10
Dalton Trumbo related an interesting brush with being labelled 'prematurely antifascist'
Mc Mike
Sep 2017
#20
The term seems to have a persistent connection to the Spanish civil war volunteers:
struggle4progress
Sep 2017
#21
This stuff is very interesting, considering the current Von Ribbentrop Molotov pact we have
Mc Mike
Sep 2017
#44
I just re-read his 1959 and 1979 introductions: the FBI story is not in the 1970 introduction but
struggle4progress
Sep 2017
#41
I am sorry to not have the edition I referenced, anymore. Gave it to a young relative years ago.
Mc Mike
Sep 2017
#43
Before I went there myself, they were just names on Christmas cards we got ever year
DFW
Sep 2017
#24
great picture . . .My Father was in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor during WWII - not pro-Fascist either
DrDan
Sep 2017
#8