Then she sits in a room. She is the sole American. The other chairs are filled by Europeans who think of themselves as anti-fascists or comrades or revolutionaries participating in what they regard as an international struggle against fascism. Hitler isn’t the only threat. Fascism is on the march throughout Europe right now. Mussolini is tyrannizing Italy, and Franco is massacring civilians in the Spanish Civil War. Democracies seem to be toppling everywhere; iron-fisted dictators rule the day.
