Word: hysterias
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This, Biddle's fourth major book, is an unsuccessful analysis, however. It fails to define what this overpowering fear is, it falls to show the true meaning of the "anti-subversive" laws, and it does not analyze the "hysteria." Instead, the book is a reportorial discussion of the effects of anti-subversive legislation and international anxiety...
Biddle contends that post-war hysteria has produced such bills as New York's Feingold Law, Maryland's Ober Law, and the McCarran Act ("A curious hodgepodge of unwise and unworkable provisions.") He praised President Truman for the Federal Loyalty Procedure...
Douglas also said that the time has come for American liberals to take a positive stand against the present political hysteria, by energetic opposition of scare bills, and by testimony at legislative inquiries...
Donham added that the American political scene is in an equally had way because of the hysteria aroused by anti-Communist witch-hunts...
Although alert to the Red threat, the Australian people, in his opinion, show none of the hysteria Tipping finds in the United States. A constitutional amendment to outlaw the Communist Party was opposed by none other than Herbert Evatt, first president of the General Assembly. "Evatt risked political suicide by defending the Reds' rights, but the amendment was roundly defeated by the people...