Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government was planning a spring offensive. The great fear was that "General" Markos Vafiades, the rebel cornmander, would attack first, knocking the government campaign off balance. In Washington, the State Department heard that a ragtag "international brigade" of 30,000 Greeks, French, Italians, Czechoslovaks, Poles, Germans and Spaniards was poised to strike from Albania and Yugoslavia. In Rome, Italian Communists announced formation of a "Greek Liberation Committee" which would send "food, clothing and medicine" to Vafiades...
...American lieutenant colonel had stumbled on the treasure, 2,000 feet underground in a German salt mine. After being on show for a month in Washington, the 202 paintings will be returned to Germany-but not to Berlin, for fear that the Russians might grab them, as they grabbed the treasures of the Zwinger in Dresden. Instead, they will probably go to Wiesbaden and Munich, in the U.S. zone...
...human mind, even the Communist mind, turns toward order. In a land where brother cannot trust brother, fear of the policeman must serve instead. The policeman has to be everywhere, because there is no other cement in the society. The spy, the informer and the censor are the aristocrats of the Communist world. The cop at the keyhole is king...
...Criminal Justice bill, Laborite Emrys Hughes launched a movement to unwig and unfrock Britain's men of law. "These medieval practices,"* he charged, "are out of keeping with modern courts." "The whole method," chimed in Communist Willie Gallacher, "is designed to create a feeling of fear and terror...
...personally have long considered myself a citizen first and a veteran last. I fear that I fall to see the necessity for organizing political pressure groups supposedly representative of all veterans. I reserve the right to form my own political views and need no veterans' group to decide them...