Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herter observed that America must erase the fear of future aggressions before any effective progress can be made in the rebuilding of Europe. "We must develop a security system through the ERP," he said...
...Rome's aged brown walls are heavy with garish tapestries-purple, green, red, black election posters, shrieking at the people. (If you want jobs and bread, some land to till, some peace to enjoy, vote Communist; if you believe in God, fear Communisn, hate tyranny, vote Christian Democrat.) I drove to the imposing stone building which houses the U.S. Embassy, talked about the bread and pasta from America which alone have saved Italians from starvation; of the American coal which alone has kept Italy's railways running and its blast furnaces roaring. Would not all these things...
...strong party which opposes the Communists can make use of their most influential offer, land reform, for fear of losing its strongest backer and wealthiest landholder in the country, the Church. Communists have been able to win power by playing on the one peasant devotion stronger than Catholicism, their love of the land. CP members all over the country have been visiting the poverty-stricken farms, asking the peasants what they need, and promising fulfillment if they vote for the Democratic Front. They insist the anyone can be a Communist and a Catholic at once...
...nameless, irrational fear which is being artificially induced by irresponsible newspapers and Washington politicians is causing a gradual disappearance of civil liberties in this country, according to writer Carey Mc Williams, speaker at a Channing Foundation lecture Saturday night...
Unless the puppeteering of public attitudes is checked, he asserted, and this fear removed, there is every chance that the United States will be sacrificed to the Fascists. "It is in the use of civil rights, not in the worried safeguarding of them that real security lies...