Word: hysterias
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...over Mexico last week, pickpockets, adding a hyper-modern wrinkle to their ancient profession, did a booming trade among crowds gathered to scan the skies for plativolos (flying saucers). For the saucer-hysteria that still flickers occasionally in the U.S. was sweeping Mexico...
...Minister John Strachey of being a Communist (see FOREIGN NEWS). Sir Percy Sillitoe, the tall, burly former South African police officer who heads M.I.5 (British counterespionage), conferred with Prime Minister Attlee; a shake-up of British security services was due. The British, no longer supercilious over U.S. "spy hysteria," ordered rechecking of personnel records in all government departments. Grumbled the Manchester Guardian: "Luckily, the Americans were not sleeping too . . . The slowness of the British government's detectives is something which the free world will not forget or forgive in a hurry...
...long ago many scientists feared that the public was forgetting the menace of the atom bomb. What many responsible scientists fear now is public hysteria caused by exaggeration of the destructiveness of the hydrogen bomb...
...several years Britons have been looking down their noses at what they called "American spy hysteria...
...several years Britons have been looking down their noses at what they called "American spy hysteria." Last week, when one of their top atomic scientists was arrested as a Russian spy, the superior British stare turned slightly glassy. Dr. Klaus Fuchs, once a trusted top-level worker at the U.S. Atomic Laboratory at Los Alamos, N. Mex., had been detected, not by famed British Intelligence or Scotland Yard, but by the FBI, whom the British called into the case. Fuchs, said the FBI, had made a partial confession. He had been a secret member of the Communist Party...