Foreword "If You Want to Call that Fascism"

[jbor]

on 24/4/03 5:19 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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)

Any chance of quoting the next couple of sentences? (Apparently no plans at
present to publish the Plume edition over here.) I mean, one "could" argue
this I guess, but old Winston was fighting ("... on the beaches ... never
surrender ... yada yada") *against* a very *real* fascist regime in that
particular war. Which surely should rate a mention. (And it brings the whole
"Counterforce" quandary in GR to mind as well.) There seems to be some
hedging in this sentence which makes me wonder where the particular train of
thought actually ends up.

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