ABSTRACT
The political phenomena of fascism did not confine itself simply to the European triangle of Germany, Italy, and Spain, during the turbulent decade of the 1930’s. In Ireland the distraught and the restless joined the ultra-patriotic and fascistic Irish Blue Shirts; in Canada, extreme right-wing agitators attracted the lower middle class discontented to their ranks. 1 Nor did the United States escape the encroachments of fascist ideology. In 1933, the year that saw the rise to national leadership of both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, there existed no less than 103 fascist organizations in America. 2 Aping the brown-shirted Nazis and the black-shirted Italians, they called themselves the Khaki Shirts, the Silver Shirts, the White Shirts, the Blue Shirts, and other similarly unimaginative names.
