Word: fears
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What democracy is not was expressed by Secretary of State Marshall in Moscow [TIME, March 24] when he said: "To us a society is not democratic if men . . . are not free to express their beliefs and convictions without fear that they may be snatched away from their home and family," and without fear "of being deprived of the right to work or deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...question now arises whether or not we can function as a democracy if the legislation to outlaw the Communist Party is passed. If men can be deprived of the "right to work" because of political beliefs, if men are in "fear" that they may be fired from their jobs because of the illegality of holding certain political beliefs, if under the dubious standard of democracy, men are persecuted for radical opinions, then where is the freedom outlined in the Bill of Rights, the Atlantic Charter, the basic tenets on which our country was founded...
Most intelligent Europeans know quite well that they could not stand aside in event of a Russian-U. S. struggle, but they have suffered so much that fear overcomes reason. Unlike the U.S.'s old isolationism, the new European brand does not spring from a sense of security, but from an overwhelming knowledge of insecurity. Britain's R. H. S. Grossman, a leader of the dissident Laborites, put it thus: "Europe has become a relatively unimportant place . . . where the atom bombs meant to fall on America will fall short on Britain. . . . This country is now indefensible...
Slowly the Russian walked around his charges and approached the couple. Slowly a grin covered his face. He tapped the woman on the back. She shuddered. Rigid apprehension spread over the faces of the onlookers, but the Russian rumbled soothingly: "Keine Angst. Keine Angst." (No fear. No fear.) Then he waved the muzzle of his Tommy gun toward the prisoner, who instinctively recoiled a step, and asked: "Dein Mann...
Great Britain is, as yet, unwilling to abandon Empire Preference, although she heartily agrees to over-all tariff reductions. Her reluctance to meet America all the way is based, in part, upon her uncertainty as to whether our tariffs will again become a political football as well as her fear that American prosperity is at best an ephemeral thing. But Britain is also overly sensitive of her unaccustomed role of debtor nation and tends to keep a too watchful eye on bank balances, at the expense of economic initiative...