Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definition of democracy that the world will understand (see above). Last week at Moscow, George Marshall made a grab for such a definition. He told the Council of Foreign Ministers: "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 denied the right to work or deprived of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...Filipino, who yields to no man in his love of freedom, last week yielded to the U.S. two bits of sovereignty. For the Filipino also loves freedom from want and freedom from fear...
...Fear Government Domination...
...father goes in fear of his sons and they don't pay any respect to him-just to show how free they are! And the schoolteachers take care to please the children, who in return pay them no attention. The young argue with their elders, and the old will do anything not to seem disagreeable or responsible. . . . The citizens . . . get hot and angry at the least sign that they are not completely free. In the end they make light of the very laws themselves, so as to have no master whatsoever over them...
...democrat knows that reaction, monarchism, and fascism are futile as defenses against communism. Only democracy can fight for democracy. The Royalist government of Greece, elected by fear, force, and fraud, supported by terror and concentration camps, staffed by stooges of the late dictator Metaxas and the Nazis, is no democracy and cannot fight for democracy...