Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inevitably through this treatment, Clark tends to overemphasize the psychological battles within the minds of each individual in the lynching mob. He seems to endow the characters with a hesitance, a doubtfulness about the righteousness of their course which would not exist in reality. The lyncher when in white heat blazes with his hate, he does not consider in rational terms. Clark's lynchers tend to think too much...
...Mexico City crowds celebrating Independence Day outside the National Palace began shouting for General Almazan. Soon somebody tossed a stone through one of the Palace windows. That was fun and others joined in. Police tried to break up the crowd with tear gas. Next they tried charging the mob on motorcycles. Finally 200 policemen carrying rifles with fixed bayonets marched in. The crowd dispersed, but before that night was over five men had been shot dead. 72 men & women wounded...
...minute had passed. A handful of men were now in control of the mob, but not the same handful who had been in control a moment before. They had horses, guns, ammunition...
...last week the Iron Guard launched all over Rumania bloody but ineffective revolts. These were crushed by the Rumanian Army as easily as the German Army crushed the original Munich Beer-Hall Putsch. Last week the King might cower in his great creamy palace on Calea Victoriei while the mob screamed and the Iron Guard fired shots in the air, but the rioting never got beyond Army control. It was the Army's redheaded General Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu who suddenly emerged on top of the pile at Bucharest...
...between irate sessions with His Majesty, conferred with Rumanian leaders of all parties and groups -Peasant, Liberal and Iron Guard-as well as with the diplomatic representatives of Hitler and Mussolini. The German Minister conferred with the Russian Minister. Stress tugged at counter-stress, hypocrite smiled on hypocrite, the mob howled...