Word: hysterias
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...order that the students of Harvard University may fully recognize the character of the war psychosis or hysteria which is now driving the United States inevitably to war and which has been influentially stimulated by certain members of the administration of Harvard University, let me quote the following paragraph from The Mysterious Stranger written many years ago by Mark Twain...
Lacking any clear definition of treasonable and seditious news, and operating through the vague but wide terms of the Espionage Act of 1917 (which has never been repealed), the Creel Committee kept the U. S. press vacillating uneasily between timidity and hysteria...
...whatever of the U. S.; 2) the U. S. has little interest in the British Fleet; 3) Great Britain is not a democracy; 4) if Hitler can't even cross the English Channel, he can't cross the Atlantic; 5) U. S. concern with fifth columnists is hysteria; 6) Ger many is not "an international outlaw"; 7) the U. S. didn't help Loyalist Spain, therefore shouldn't help any other country; 8) the U. S. Government is deceiving the electorate...
...June day in 1939, Dr. Jacob Shatzky, librarian of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan, was mulling over a book catalogue that had just arrived from Vienna. The catalogue advertised the sale of 812 18th-and 19th-Century books and papers on animal magnetism, hysteria, interpretation of dreams. The price for the lot was $500. The name of the owner was not divulged. He was, stated the catalogue, a "famous Viennese psychic explorer...
...group; nor have we a single, unified, political labor movement with recognized leaders ready to step into the government. Consequently, to America the war has thus far meant the strengthening of the hand of the economic royalist; a halting of social progress, and a burst of labor-baiting "patriotic" hysteria in and out of the halls of Congress; it has, in short, more nearly resembled Taps than Reveille for the New Deal...