The Nome nugget., 1933-11-18
WHAT Is THE MEANING OF
 FASCTSM AND NAZIISM
The Nome Nugget, Geo. S. Maynard, Editor

| What do the. Black Shirts O.
 Mussolini in Italy, the. Brown
 Sh rts of Hitler in Germany and
 he Blue Shirts of General Duffy's
 army in Ireland represent? No-
 menclature being a haphazard aft fair at best it doesn't surprise me to discover 9that the term Fascism is in fair way to being applied in. the near future to any substitute
 other than Communism (which al- ready has a name). For the par lliamentary system which, in one
 form or other. still subsists un- easily in. number of so-called
 const.tutional demoeracies.
 The name is not really approp-
 riate. The fasces of the Roman llicsor -Geffeer- who attended the tRoman magistrates bearing an x Eand bundle of rodsl have the nearest approach today in the larg- CT symbolic truncheon of the Brit ish policeman They represent
 au hority, it is true, but the im- personal authority founded on the
 established law, not personal au-
 thority upheld by new enthusiasm
 and new ideals.
 Then I ask myself what is the Fascist state. I conclude that it is meant, Or ought to mean the
 machinery of state set up by Sig nor Mussolini and his Black Shirts. But the phrase is also used to mean the machinery of state that l Is in the act of being set up by
 Herr Hitler and his Brown Shirts,
 With no great stretch of imagina- tion I would easily apply, it to the new machinery of state that has
 heen set up by President Roose- welt and his henchmen whose shirts differ from others only by
 an impressive rolling up of their sleeves.
 Fascism n brief, implies what we may call the flight from par liaments, the revolt from the talk ! ing shop. the transition into action
 of the belief that while the divi-
 sion of op 'nion may be the best
 way of reaching the ultimate truth, conformity of opinion is the only sure way of getting immed- ] fate results.
 l It never occurred to the old Con- Is itutional sts that it might be possible to bridge the gap bekween dictatership-the dominance of
 single opinion-and democracy the ultimate prevalence of the
 most widely held. or at any rate. the most voeiferous, of a score of
 competing views. Even now, I rub my eyes ani ask if the miracle has really been
 achieved, if theA people who are standing behind Mussolinni and Hitler and Roosevelt w.th what appears to be a single-uniform
 mind have, not merely agreed
 among themselves to give up hav- ling opinions in order to get things
 done, and. if so, whether t can last.
 | Is Fasc's anything else but an Autocracy? Obviously it is. For | 1t provides us with an Autoerat
 who is not merely a ruler of the people but the personificaton of their hopes and desires, of their passions, of their prejudices and their temper. It is immaterial whether in the first instance these things are imparted by him to them or by them to him.
 The Fascist state represents the perfect Identification of ruler and ruled, the great executive who does things and the citizens who. want them done.
 From the point of view of pro- |gress the thing seems too good to be true. If it is real and not ill., usory, all the long winded clash of opinions, the condolences and com mites, the divisions in Hobbies and the compromises in council cham