Word: hysterias
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...principal danger of the situation seems that these people are completely unable to see themselves in any other light than that of an aggrieved power struggling for noble ideals against a world of political, financial and commercial conspirators. This feeling has reached the stage of morbid hysteria...
...prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician to recognize that to hold power he must have constantly before the people a live issue, a body of emotional material to capitalize into votes. Demagogues live on popular hysteria, and Hitler knows it as well as anyone...
...much-disputed conviction in 1917. The opinion of all but Californians is that the prisoner, if not plainly innocent, is at least the victim of an atrociously unfair trial, in which State's witnesses gave perjured testimony, evidence for the defense was suppressed, and the issued clouded over with hysteria. Now the case is going to be reopened...
...important to Bolivia and the American exporters, for it provides a short cut to the sea. The English, since they own and operate the railroad running over the old, longer passage to the coast, are solidly behind the Paraguayans who are attempting to retain the Chaco. The usual war hysteria has camouflaged this primary issue and added oil to the flames. Horror stories and parades have done their insidious work on the mob mind, until it has seemed to both nations that nothing but national pride and honor are at stake. While this psychological situation persists, there is no hope...
...Teutonic mind, as it revealed itself in the last war, when by high-handed and stupid actions it swung American opinion over to the side of the Allies and finally brought us to intervention. Secondly, there is the fact that Hitler came to power through a burst of national hysteria and may have to retain power through hysterical procedures. He has used nationalism as a pretext; he may find that the flame will have to be fanned industriously if he is to remain its particular guardian...