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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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