Word: informativeness
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...Communists. Malaya is laced with barbed wire, crisscrossed with searchlights, webbed with interlocking patrols. More & more Malays and Chinese are whispering against the bandits, although many fear Red reprisals. Templer recently uprooted 66 men, women & children from one village and put them in a detention camp for failing to inform against Communist assassins...
...Special duty squads seized strong points at the approaches to Cairo; jeeploads of young officers roared into town, rapped at doors and windows, and rounded up eleven generals and a battalion of sleepy colonels, including Naguib's brother Aly, commander of the Cairo garrison. "Shall I personally inform General Aly's wife?" a young officer asked Naguib. "Do the same as you did with the others." Naguib ordered, and his brother was packed off to jail...
...what he considered to be the most important part, that is the head . . . As for the remainder, it had been sent back by an error on the part of his housekeeper. I was urgently requested to keep the matter dark . . . My answer to this was to inform the Press." Soon the artistic world was in an uproar. Telegrams and cables began to pour in. Public demonstrations took place. "In Italy . . . a 24-hour strike was called, involving everyone connected with the painting industry . . . a colossal effigy . . . was constructed of soap and tallow, paraded through the streets of Florence, and ceremoniously...
Will Tommy talk again? Will he inform the police about Paula? Will Smith be appointed dean? Paula breathlessly asks and laboriously answers these momentous questions...
...does Chambers feel about being an informer? "On that road of the informer, it is always night. I who have traveled it from end to end, and know its windings, switchbacks and sheer drops-I cannot say at what point, where or when, the ex-Communist must make his decision to take it. That depends on the individual man . . . I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary...