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WAR AND FASCISM
Henri Barbusse Sums Up (To the Editor)
Sir,— While all capitalist countries are in one stage or another of fascisation; in the process of being led, or of having been led, back to the barbarism of middle ages; while ideas and schemes of a fascist character are being flaunted abroad as Socialistic, e.g., the Roosevelt plan, claimed by the N.S.W. Labor Party Leadership as being synonymous with the “Lang Plan”—as a “socialistic road to prosperity”; while the fascist flame spreads in Australia with the proposed Disloyalty Bill, and a great class conscious movement gathers its forces in active opposition, your readers will be interested in the following from the pen of Henri Barbusse, eminent French writer, and noted leader of the world-wide movement against war.
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