Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Warning. Heart of the U.S. proposal was President Eisenhower's offer to exchange military information and to impose an effective ground-air inspection system (TIME, Aug. 29). The U.S. hoped to set up a "network of alarm" designed to provide early warning of a surprise attack, of the comprehensive mobilization and deployment that would almost surely have to precede...
...some politicos, who have always found bankers a popular target, the merger trend is cause for alarm. Cried Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "An alarming concentration of financial power in the hands of a few banks." Celler is busily pushing a bill to restrict mergers, and has lined up top Administration support behind it. Both Trustbuster Stanley N. Barnes, who has investigated some of the mergers, and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin have come out in favor of the bill. While they feel that the mergers probably have not caused any lessening...
Rumblings in Islam. Peace was not to return that easily. At week's end the revanche went on. Across half the world, Islam reverberated with sympathy and alarm. Seventeen Arab and Asian nations asked the U.N. to intervene. In Karachi, 5,000 Moslems burst through police lines and burned an effigy of "French Colonialism." The U.S., with some 20,000 Americans stationed at the four SAC air bases in Morocco, maneuvered to keep from being involved. Anxious to support the cause of Arab freedom, yet loth to antagonize NATO Partner France, Washington only expressed concern and asked the French...
...French pressed on with what Premier Faure called "unrelenting repression." The fury of France's revenge was the measure of Frenchmen's alarm...
...Shocked Alarm. In Paris there was shock and alarm. Premier Edgar Faure, who had appointed an able man to bring peace to Morocco and had then hung back from letting that man put through the reforms he demanded, condemned "this terror and savageness," and grimly warned of French retribution. In the Moroccan capital of Rabat, his appointee, French Resident General Gilbert Grandval, was shocked at the bloody collapse of his efforts to win a compromise...