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==Contemporary reporting and commentary==

==Contemporary reporting and commentary==

The mood in Washington at FDR's inauguration was “strangely reminiscent of Rome in the first weeks after the march of the Blackshirts, of Moscow at the beginning of the Five-Year Plan” reported ''The New York Times''. “America today literally asks for orders.” The Roosevelt administration, reported the ''Times,'' “envisages a federation of industry, labor and government after the fashion of the corporative State as it exists in Italy.”<ref>Anne O'Hare McCormick, "[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60A1FFF3E5C16738DDDAE0894DD405B838FF1D3 VAST TIDES THAT STIR THE CAPITAL; Behind the Tremendous Activity and the Revolutionary Experiments in Washington]," ''The New York Times'' Sunday Magazine, May 7, 1933, p. SM1</ref> George Soule, editor of the pro-Roosevelt ''New Republic'' magazine, wrote, "We are trying out the economics of Fascism without having suffered all its social or political ravages."<ref>George Henry Soule, ''[http://books.google.com/books?ei=R4CcSoqXK6SCywSm9tzwDg&id=I89fAAAAIAAJ The Coming American Revolution]'' (The Macmillan Company, 1934), p. 294</ref> In the ''North American Review'', the progressive writer Roger Shaw described the New Deal as “Fascist means to gain liberal ends.”<ref>David Boaz, "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/09/28/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt]," ''Reason'', October 2007</ref> "We in America,” wrote liberal journalist Mauritz Hallgren, “are being forced rapidly and definitely into Fascism..."<ref>''[http://www.spectator.co.uk/ Spectator]'', August 18, 1933, p. 211</ref>

The mood in Washington at FDR's inauguration was “strangely reminiscent of Rome in the first weeks after the march of the Blackshirts, of Moscow at the beginning of the Five-Year Plan” reported ''The New York Times''. “America today literally asks for orders.” The Roosevelt administration, reported the ''Times,'' “envisages a federation of industry, labor and government after the fashion of the corporative State as it exists in Italy.”<ref>Anne O'Hare McCormick, "[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60A1FFF3E5C16738DDDAE0894DD405B838FF1D3 VAST TIDES THAT STIR THE CAPITAL; Behind the Tremendous Activity and the Revolutionary Experiments in Washington]," ''The New York Times'' Sunday Magazine, May 7, 1933, p. SM1</ref> Progressive writer Roger Shaw described the New Deal as “Fascist means to gain liberal ends.”<ref>David Boaz, "[http://reason.com/archives/2007/09/28/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt]," ''Reason'', October 2007</ref> George Soule, editor of the pro-Roosevelt ''New Republic'' magazine, wrote, "We are trying out the economics of Fascism without having suffered all its social or political ravages."<ref>George Henry Soule, ''[http://books.google.com/books?ei=R4CcSoqXK6SCywSm9tzwDg&id=I89fAAAAIAAJ The Coming American Revolution]'' (The Macmillan Company, 1934), p. 294</ref> "We in America,” wrote liberal journalist Mauritz Hallgren, “are being forced rapidly and definitely into Fascism..."<ref>''[http://www.spectator.co.uk/ Spectator]'', August 18, 1933, p. 211</ref>

==Fascists on the New Deal==

==Fascists on the New Deal==