Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victims of History. If not religion, what will hold Israel together? Today fear of the Arabs performs for the Israelis the same unifying function that Gentile persecution and discrimination performed during the Dispersion. The Arabs, as Ben-Gurion noted, are 40 to one Israeli. But the Jewish superiority over the Arabs is not just a figment of Israeli imagination; it is a fact. Israel has probably the highest percentage of skilled labor and executive experience of any people in the world; by comparison, the Arabs are near the bottom of the scale...
Since Hiroshima, the U.S.'s fear for the safety of the Panama Canal has trebled and quadrupled. At the order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico...
...like a movie camera. Says Evelyn Waugh, of his books: "It is as though, out of an infinite length of film, sequences had been cut . . . The writer has become director and producer. Indeed, the affinity to the film is everywhere apparent." Several of his books (e.g., The Ministry of Fear, Brighton Rock) have been transmogrified into movies-and one (The Power and the Glory) bowdlerized into Beauty, Hollywood style (as The Fugitive...
...tomorrow the U.S., Britain and France should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...acts of courage. But as one outrage after another teaches him what these characters are really made of-they are of a piece with all he used to fight-and how confident they seem of returning to power in his country, McCloud changes. Loathing, rage and his very fear of them force him to heroic action, and restore his leverage on living...