Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME quite agrees that there should be no hysteria, but TIME cannot point out that the Atlantic "is still a barrier to conquest." It never has been. In colonial times it was crossed by British and French Armies. In 1814-15 a British expedition took Washington, fought in Louisiana. In 1863 a French Army entered Mexico City, set up an empire. In 1917-18 a U. S. Army crossed the Atlantic in the opposite direction. The only barrier there has ever been in the Atlantic has been a fleet that could control the ocean (and nowadays an adequate air force...
...Texas Corp. in the cash register. Those who knew Cap Rieber were sure he was no pro-Nazi, although he had been keen to do business with Germany before the war. But they also felt his indiscretions and bad handling of the press had stirred prejudice and hysteria against him. Their explanation of the scandal was best put by Torkild Rieber himself: "My fault. I talk too much...
Said the Commission: "The American people must not repeat the mistakes of the European democracies. Without becoming victims of hysteria, they should resolutely refuse to nourish pleasing illusions and should proceed in all haste to prepare for the worst . . . gird themselves to face the darkest period of their history. . . . In this world a people must be strong or perish." Main job facing the schools, said the Commission, is mobilization for moral defense. Its proposals: American Dream: "The American people . . . have taken their blessings for granted . . . lack a clear perception of what is at stake. . . . Education can help to clarify...
...Christ may appear on the clouds of heaven tomorrow, even this very night, and they must arouse the community. ... All this, to conventional folk, is disquieting, upsetting, alarming. ... So they try to drive the Witnesses away; they stir up the public authorities against them; in times of excitement and hysteria they organize mobs and beat them up. . . . Lastly there is the irritating question of the flag salute. . . . What were the early Christians doing but this very thing when they refused to put their pinch of salt upon the altars of the Roman emperor?" The practical examiner was Reporter Malcolm Logan...
This imitative hysteria was something of a comic-strip episode because of the innocent brush which occasioned it. Contrary to a long-standing agreement, 16 armed plain-clothes Japanese gendarmes had sauntered into the U. S. defense sector of Shanghai's International Settlement. U. S. Marines arrested them, disarmed them, interned them. One was permitted to telephone his headquarters. Their commander called on Marine Commander Colonel DeWitt Peck and apologized for their mistake. The men were released. The incident was apparently closed...