[PEN-L:563] Re: Re: Lincoln Brigade Is Honored

[eugenecoyle@xxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene P. Coyle)]

Jim, I think the term WAS used by the US military, when many of the Vets
enlisted in the US forces in WWII.  The term was entered-- I believe, but
haven't actually seen a document -- on the military records of the
enlistee, for the purpose of relegating them to certain roles/sectors.

        Gene Coyle

>quoth the NT TIMES: >But because the [Abraham Lincoln] brigades were
>largely organized by Soviet-backed Communist organizations, the American
>Government used the term "premature anti-fascists" to describe them, and
>    many wound up dogged by harassment into the 1960's that cost them their
>jobs and passports. <
>
>I don't think that the gov't actually used this term. It was more of an
>ironic term used by the left itself, referring to being punished for doing
>something the US gov't itself did later. Of course, the gov't acted as if
>it was using this term.
>
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
>http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html