Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CHILE Fear Along the Andes
These words, from the Declaration of Independence, were more than an indictment of George Ill's tyranny. They represent a deeprooted, continuing, and well-founded U.S. fear of the military dictatorship which may result from a large standing army. After this war, the U.S. is virtually certain to have such an army for the first time in its history. With the possibility by no means remote that a military hero may be elected President in 1948, it is none too soon for patriots to begin reconsidering this danger. An examination of the nine generals who have occupied the White...
Mydans and his wife remember the months of internment at Santo Tomas as "an atmosphere of constant, oozing fear and unrelieved physical discomfort. All of us found ourselves losing the power to keep perspective and to remember who we were and the lives we used to lead. With no purpose and no future we were overcome with the feeling of futility...
...touched off the Belgian unrest which British intervention prevented from reaching crisis proportions last fall. The Communist Party had had a determined hand in continuing to give the social discontent a political form and drive. The one thing that gave pause to the recalcitrant Socialists last week was the fear that if they withdrew from the Government, Communists might increase their strength...
...curiously disappointing film, for all its quality, much of The Ministry of Fear is as bright, sharp and cruel as a tray of surgical instruments-memorable especially for numerous props and sets which evoke the frigid metropolitan atmosphere of which Author Greene is an eloquent poet. Its main trouble is the lack of a warmly living body for the instruments to work on. The novel's hero, though over-literary and soaked with self-pity, was a corroded and conscience-torn young man to whom terrible events happened terrifyingly. The movie's hero is a competent, personable actor...