Word: ism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solemn, long-nosed reporter for President Franklin Roosevelt went the rounds of Europe to learn if total war was truly inevitable, spokesmen for both sides restated their war aims more grimly and finally than ever. For the Allies, British Prime Minister Chamberlain said again: Hitler and his crushing "ism" must be wiped out of Europe. For himself and his oligarchy, Adolf Hitler said: he must dominate 125,000,000 Europeans and the world's trade arteries must be freed from Great Britain's "pirate" grip...
...that was fairly old stuff. Later in the week Das Schwarze Korps clicked its heels again and did better with a brand-new patriotic ism. Discarding the long-proclaimed Nazi thesis that the English were racially first cousins to the Germans, Himmler's theorists announced that actually the English were "white Jews" and that British "Protestantism" was after all only a modern version of the "old Jewish law book.'5 "This theory," conceded the paper, "is, of course, too novel to be immediately grasped by everyone. We have been far too accustomed to regard England as we would...
About all worried "Dev" could do was call the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) to meet this week and give the police wider powers to arrest and detain suspects. The latest outburst of I. R. A. terror ism dates from Dec. 14, when two young Irishmen were sentenced to death in England at the Birmingham Assizes, for planting bombs at Coventry...