Abstract

Fascism at Columbia University

Recent events in Europe have again focused the attention of the American press on Italy. The visit of 350 Italian students to the U.S., was a propaganda move designed to win the friendliness of American university students to the fascist cause. The center of this propaganda is the Casa Italiana. The Casa, a handsome seven-stow building, is an integral part of the Columbia University in New York City, as are the library, the college, and the law school. It is the home of the activities of the Italian Department. And yet it has become an unofficial adjunct of the Italian Consul-General's office in New York and one of the most important sources of fascist propaganda in the U.S. No liberal can quarrel with the principle that Columbia University must permit all varieties of political opinion, including fascism, to be freely expressed there.