Word: fanaticisme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Archbishop Joseph Schrembs, 79, Bavarian-born, tireless preacher (some Sundays, five sermons totaling as much as eight hours), hymn-writing head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland, outspoken participant in secular affairs (he opposed Prohibition as "fanaticism ); after three years illness in Cleveland.
Slowly, as they came to bloody grips with their exotic enemy, Americans were beginning to realize that to the Japanese mind (an entity utterly alien to them in culture and almost as uncontemporary with them as Neanderthal man), the Emperor Hirohito was Japan. In him was embodied the total enemy...
To the Germans now, each week of war was a week of reprieve. Every inch of ground held now was a mile of hope for a miracle, every day was a victory on the bloody march to April. By April there might be a number of strong new divisons-built...
Overgrown Bodyguard. The SS, which was first formed as a bodyguard for Hitler, is the core of Nazi fanaticism. Infiltrated throughout the Army (at least eight to every company) the Black Guards serve as spies against defeatism and disloyalty.
Jap fanaticism is also disturbing. A Brooklyn private, describing the banzai shout, told Bigart: "It had kind of a weird sound, like Ladies' Day at Ebbets Field." Wrote Bigart: "The German . . . rarely tries suicide tactics. When a mission becomes hopeless the German gives up. But the Japanese never does...