Cripps explained that the fascist threat was serious and that Communist hostility towards the Labour Party had ceased.

Their affinity with the right rather than the left allowed them to overlook the genuine nature of the fascist threat.

Fine-tuning definitions, however, is less important for the future than identifying and neutralizing fascist threats.

As the fascist threat grew more acute, however, she modified her views.

"The Soviet Union," Stalin said, "should maintain reasonable relations with such a powerful country like the United States, especially in light of the growing fascist threat".

Rogge used his report as the basis for his public denunciations of the continuing fascist threat to the United States.

Science and technology had defeated the fascist threat.

Indeed, in the decades before World War II, a great many argued that the fascist threat was exaggerated or that it was someone else's problem.

This led to the creation of an anti-fascist movement in France, unifying Socialists and Communists together against the fascist threat in an United Front.