Foreword "If You Want to Call that Fascism"

[Dave Monroe]

  "Now, those of fascistic disposition--or merely
those among us who remain all to ready to justify any
government action, whether right or wrong--will
immediately point out that this is prewar thinking,
and that the moment enemy boms begin to fall on one's
homeland, altering the landscape and producing
casualties among friends and neighbors, all this sort
of thing, really, becomes irrelevant, if not indeed
subversive.  With the homland in danger, strong
leadership and effective measures become of the
essence, and if you want to call that fascism, very
well, call it whatever you please, no one is likely to
be listening, unless it's for the air arids to be over
and the all clear to sound.  But the unseemliness of
an argument--let alone a prophecy--in the heat of some
later emergency does not necessarily make it wrong. 
One could certainly argue that Churchill's war cabinet
had behaved no differently than a fascist regime,
censoring news, controlling wages and prices,
restricting travel, subordinating civil liberties to
slef-defined wartime necessity." ("Foreword," pp. ix-x)

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