Word: hysterias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the torture of unfortunate animals to the torture of unfortunate minorities is only one step down the pathway of hysteria and cruelty. Good citizens should show their children that such barbarism ill befits democracy...
Give the people a chance to "do something" to take part in national defense. At least 50% of this fifth-column hysteria is a sublimation of that frustrated desire "to do something to help." That should give you some hint of the untapped spiritual resources of our people...
...stairs lined with Elite Guard troopers, he marched, smiled and saluted acknowledgment to straining thousands in the streets. With the savage chant of Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! ringing in his ears, he entered his automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn by white-bloused Hitler Maidens. Overhead the sun shone bright...
Collapse. All of them-delegates, newsmen, wise guys-understood politics thoroughly. The question was: Did they understand a political movement? They shied off like wise guys, sneering: "Willkie, the Nine-Minute Wonder," "Hopson's Choice." They gave themselves comforting reasons for his upsurge-Eastern seaboard hysteria, Wall Street propaganda, utilities propaganda-explained away the galleryites as paid Wall Street stooges, explained away the telegrams by knowing references to utility tactics in fighting the Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company...
...must look towards the future and make sure that the same mistakes are not made again. We must arm intelligently and without hysteria. We must make sure that the enemies of democracy do not use this will to arm as a means to found Fascism in this country. Above all, we must not desert Britain and her Empire because they are today our first line of defense. Britain will now be fighting at terrific odds; she may crack beneath the strain just as France has done, but the British fleet must be saved from Hitler or we will find ourselves...