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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imitation of Naziism? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1940 | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy Hitler | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: The Sun Also Rises | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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