Word: dreyfusism
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...heat of the case forced the resignation of National Police Chief Tommaso Pavone. But still there were no arrests, and even less effort in the government to get to the bottom of the affair. People began to compare the Montesi case to France's famed I'Affaire Dreyfus...
...noise rose several decibels when 17-year-old Columbia University Sophomore Goerge Reisman of Students for America called Cohn the "American Dreyfus" and barked: "Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy will be redeemed when the people have taken back their government from the criminal alliance of Communists, Socialists, New Dealers and the Eisenhower-Dewey Republicans." But the loudest ovation of all came when Rabbi Schultz introduced "My Hero," Joe McCarthy himself...
...steaming jungles of Guiana, or hired jailers as efficient as the shark-infested seas and fever-ridden swamps that stood guard on all sides of the Cayenne colony. The world got its first full whiff of Devil's Island iniquity in the case of Captive Alfred Dreyfus, who spent four years there before his defender, Emile Zola, wrote J'accuse, and brought him back to freedom...
...Across France they were portrayed as "peace partisans," condemned because they opposed Washington plans to war on Russia. In Italy they were "Gli Innocenti" (The Innocents), whose two young children (5 and 9) would be made orphans, and Rome's Communist L'Unitá compared them to Dreyfus, Zola, Sacco and Vanzetti, and John Brown...
...case in living memory, not even the Dreyfus or the Sacco-Vanzetti cases, split a nation so sharply into two camps. The other two cases touched passions that were primarily political. The Hiss-Chambers case has stirred the whole spirit of the time. The conflicting forces of the 20th century-religious, social and political-beat over it in fierce waves...