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Transatlantic Antifascisms Michael Seidman Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41778-5 — Transatlantic Antifascisms Michael Seidman Index More Information Index Abbott Laboratories, 145 and German prisoners of war, 143 Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 27 and interventionism, 136 absenteeism, 23, 56, 152 and Ku Klux Klan, 141 and Bevin, 209 and Southern racism, 142 and collective bargaining, 227 and World War II, 143 and drinking, 228 as victims, 135 and Dunkirk spirit, 210 discrimination against, 155, 230 and Friday pay, 210, 227 newspapers of, 141 and hunting season, 227 pastors of, 131 and lack of alarm clocks, 211 Again, 145 and physicians, 228 Agir,99 and UK miners, 211 Aid Spain committees, 35 and UK shop stewards, 210 airlift, 26 and US opinion, 228 Alain (Émile-August Chartier), 75 and weekend labor, 218 Albania, 107 and weekends, 228 Alcalá Zamora, Niceto, 13 and women, 211, 228 alcohol abuse, 24 at US Ford factories, 226 Alexander, A. V., 213 during German occupation of France, Alfonso XIII, 17 200 Algeria, 253 during Phoney War, 190 and de Gaulle, 174 in postwar France, 249 Algerian War, 253 in UK shipbuilding, 210 Algiers, 174 in United Kingdom, 210 Alliance démocratique, 80 in United States, 223 Alliance of Antifascist Intellectuals, 44 of French miners, 191, 248 Alphonsines, 17 reasons for, 210 Alsace, 146 absolutism, 9 Alsthom Abyssinia. See Ethiopia and Allied bombing of France, Academic Assistance Council, 88 204 Action Française, 31, 40, 98, 123 America First, 41, 148 and Leclerc, 123 as anti-Soviet, 154 as anti-Catholic, 100 American Artists’ Congress, 42 AEU (Amalgamated Engineering Union), American Communists. See CPUSA 217, 219 American Federation of Labor (AFL), affirmative action, 28 157 Africa, 26 American Legion, 152 African-Americans, 7, 230 opposes anti-Semitism, 135 and “double victoryˮ, 221 American Revolution, 140 and anti-Semitism, 141 Americanophilia, 186 and competition for victimhood, 142 Americans. See United States and Ethiopia, 130, 131 Amery, Leo, 66 315 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41778-5 — Transatlantic Antifascisms Michael Seidman Index More Information 316 Index anarchists, 19, 29, 38, 253 anti-work ideologies, 253 anarchosyndicalists, 23 appeasement, 37, 251 Andalusia, 10 in Spain, 48 Anglicans, 36, 64 Aragon, Louis, 75 Anglophilia Archbishop of Canterbury, 47 and Knox, 149 Argelès-sur-Mer, 50 and US rearmament, 151 Armistice Day, 193 in France, 124 Artists against War and Fascism, 157 in United States, 135, 154 Ascq (Nord), 203 in US South, 149 Asturias, 14, 17 Aniche, 191 Atelier, 206 Anschluss, 94, 99. See also Austria Atholl, Duchess of, 34, 47 accepted by Mussolini, 99 Atlantic, 130 and French Christian democrats, 99 Atlantic Charter, 162 and Italy, 94 and French Resistance, 172 anti-Comintern pact and self-determination, 162 and Roosevelt, 147 Atlantic Conference. See Atlantic Charter anti-Communism, 252 Atlantic Revolutions, 4, 10, 237 antifa movements, 254 features of, 238 antifascism, 1–6, 9, 26, 40, 42 Atlantic Wall, 50, 187, 189, 246 and 1960s, 253 Atlanticists, 101 and absenteeism, 228 atomic weaponry, 156, 233 and abstract art, 159 Attlee, Clement, 60, 106, 128, 249 and anti-Semitism, 135 and Free French, 176 and Christianity, 145 andLeagueofNations,90 and communism, 40 and nationalizations, 245 and denial of labor for Germany, 187 on Munich, 74, 96 and foreign scientists, 156 Aube, 100 and immigrants, 155 Auden, W. H., 34, 36 and pacifism, 74 Australia, 62 and racism, 143 Austria, 48, 75 and regionalism, 143 Anschluss, 61, 68, 69, 94 and resistance to work, 82, 225, 231 Vienna pogrom, 94 and trade unions, 157 Axis, 2, 5, 25, 31, 32, 48 as broad coalition, 87 and Roosevelt, 148 as conservative, 1, 3 and slavery, 139, 151 as counterrevolutionary, 3, 5, 6 and Vichy subservience, 171 as ecumenical, 100 in war of attrition, 120, 121 as racist, 143 lack of cooperation within, 161 as revolutionary, 2 supposed vigor of, 79 collective and individual, 189 Azaña, Manuel, 12, 13, 15, 29 in US South, 141 of US government, 222 B’nai B’rith, 141 opportunistic nature of, 251 Badajoz, 16 resilience of, 254 Badoglio, Pietro, 170 Anti-Nazi League, 152 Bahamas, 151 anti-racism, 28, 125, 134 Bailby, Léon, 61, 78 anti-Semitism, 2, 7, 33, 59 Bailey, Josiah W., 142 and anti-Masonry, 173 Baldwin, Stanley, 32 and British opinion, 88 and Edward VIII, 84 and French Resistance, 122 and Hitler, 72 and pacifism, 114 and slavery, 139 as secondary, 96 and Spanish Civil War, 32 in United States, 132 as prime minister, 69, 91 Anti-war Coordinating Committee, 91 on Versailles Treaty, 64 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41778-5 — Transatlantic Antifascisms Michael Seidman Index More Information Index 317 Balkans, 127 as minister of labour, 128, 209, 213, 244 Baltics, 233, 234 Bidault, Georges, 75, 99, 247 Bank of England, 245 as journalist, 124 Bank of France, 247 Billotte, Pierre, 177 Baptists, 40 Bir Hakeim, 170, 176 Barcelona, 16, 18, 24, 25, 36, 42, 165 Bishop of Exeter, 89 bombing of, 41 Bishop of Manchester, 85 Barthou, Louis, 61 black marketeering, 182, 185 Basque country, 11, 17, 38, 39 as individualistic, 232 as antifascist, 146 Blackfriars,38 Bataille Socialiste,81 Blacks. See African-Americans Battle of Britain, 70, 117 Blériot, 183 and Allied air power, 172 Blitzstein, Marc, 47 and United States, 161 Bloch, Marc, 123 and war of attrition, 150 Blue Division, 166 as combative antifascism, 164 Blue Laws, 147 Battle of Cable Street, 86 Blum, Léon, 56, 102, 247 Battle of Stalingrad, 117, 165, 185, 214 and Chamberlain, 70 Battle of the Atlantic, 160 and Czechoslovakia, 73 Baudouin, Paul, 78 and forty-hour week, 81 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), and League of Nations, 63 86, 90 and national defense, 108 and de Gaulle, 122 and nationalizations, 247 as antifascist voice, 120 and nonintervention, 29, 31, 33, 39 as precedent for nationalizations, 245 and rearmament, 69 Beaverbrook, Lord, 208 and Roosevelt, 75 Belgium, 63, 119, 149 and Soviet Union, 72 and Nazi occupation, 146 as appeaser, 65 strikes in, 191 as pacifist, 59, 60, 72, 74 Belin, René, 196 as prime minister, 55, 68 Bell, Julian, 34 on fascism, 54 Belle Jardinière, 198 on Munich Agreement, 73 Benes, Edvard, 61 on Nazism as slavery, 139 Benton, Thomas Hart, 144–146 supports de Gaulle, 171 Berchtesgaden, 73 Blunt, Anthony, 44 Bergery, Gaston, 91 Boilermakers Union, 210 Berliet Bolívar, Simón, 140 nationalized, 246 Bolivarian Revolutions, 140 Berliet, Marius, 246 Bolsheviks, 21, 39, 99, 102. See also Bermuda, 151 Communism Bernal, J. D., 34, 89 and Masons, 173 Bernanos, Georges, 37, 38, 40, 101 Bonapartism, 52, 53 criticizes Catholics, 179 Bonnet, Georges, 80 on irreligion, 100 and franc, 161 Bessarabia, 112, 233 and Soviet Union, 110 Bessie, Alvah, 155 as anti-Communist, 111 Beuve-Méry, Hubert, 99 as appeaser, 114 Bevan, Aneurin, 85 Bonnevay, Laurent, 57 Beveridge Report, 244 Borah, William, 47 Beveridge, William, 89 Bordeaux, 179 and welfare state, 243 Boris, Georges, 101, 102, 171 Bevin, Ernest, 89, 92, 106, 128, 249 Borkenau, Franz, 43, 75 and conscription of women workers, 217 Boswell, Peyton, 158 and Free French, 176 Brasillach, Robert, 79, 100 as anti-Communist, 92, 237 Bréguet, 190 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41778-5 — Transatlantic Antifascisms Michael Seidman Index More Information 318 Index Breton, André, 75 and Nazism, 94 Britain. See United Kingdom and Pétain, 179 British Broadcasting Corporation. See and revolutionary antifascism, 29 BBC and Spanish Republic, 12, 15, 34–36, British Communists. See CPGB 39, 40, 251 British Union of Fascists. See BUF and STO, 188 Brittain, Vera, 62, 89 anti-British, 136 Brittany, 146 as fascists, 85 Brooks, Van Wyck, 133 tolerance of during Liberation of Brossolette, Pierre, 99 France, 239 Broz. See Tito, Josip Broz Caudillo. See Franco, Francisco Brulé, Michel, 190 Caudron, 190 Buenos Aires, 42 CEDA (Confederación Española de BUF (British Union of Fascists), 65, 84, Derechas Autónomas), 13, 51 85 Cela, Camilo José, 42 government restrictions on, 86 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 78 Bulgaria Century Group, 136, 137 and Soviet Union, 235 Century of the Common Man, 139 Buré, Émile, 101–103 Cervantes, Miguel de, 42 Burgundy, 180 CFLN (Comité français de libération Byron, Lord, 42 nationale) and centralization, 239 Cadogan, Alexander, 32 and CNR, 175 Cagney, James, 47 and Socialists, 175 Cahiers du Témoignage chrétien, 123 and Soviet Union, 175 Caillaux, Joseph, 79 as pluralist, 175 as appeaser, 80 CGT (Confédération générale du travail), Calas, Nicolas, 159 57, 202 Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering and nationalizations, 246 Company, 214 and political strikes, 202 Calvo Sotelo, José, 17 and workweek, 248 Cameroon, 124 during occupation, 196, 201 Campbell, Roy, 32 recruiting by, 249 Camus, Albert, 42 CGTU (Confédération générale du travail as journalist, 124 unitaire), 55 on nationalizations, 246 Chad, 124 Canada, 62, 106, 120 Chambelland, Maurice, 76 and appeasement, 106 Chamberlain, Austen, 89, 94 Canard enchaîné, 61, 63 Chamberlain, Neville, 68, 72 Capra, 190 and Czechoslovakia, 81, 101 Carbone Lorraine, 200 and Ethiopia, 131 Cárdenas, Juan Francisco de, 242 and Franco, 108 Carlists, 17 and Hitler, 72 Cartoucherie, 183 and Labour, 91, 114 Casablanca Conference, 167 and Mussolini, 72 Cash-and-Carry, 149, 150 and pound, 161 Catalonia, 11, 14, 16, 17 and Soviet Union, 60, 72, 107 as antifascist, 146 as “realistˮ, 169 Catholic World,
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