Word: pre-war
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...election, Andreas Papandreou stumped the country and was heralded as his father's successor. He had been a minister and then a Parliamentary deputy in the Center Union government, but Greek politics was almost new to him-having been exiled as a student for activity against a pre-war government, he had been a professor of Economics in the United States for 15 years before his return to Greece in 1960. Yet his increasingly independent stand on the NATO alliance and the U.S. infiltration of the Greek secret police-combined with his immense popularity-made him the principal target...
...subjected to increasing pressure-are still defensible and those who can muster attention and an adequate defense may still employ the tricks in our legal system to shield themselves from repression. The trial of the Chicago Eight, though disgraceful, is still a long way from the Nuremberg Trials in pre-war Germany...
...characterization and political action. The central character, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, was the victim of a homosexual assault in his youth. Having developed a consuming need for normalcy, he joins the Fascist party and works as a counter-espionage agent. The lushness, the depravity, and the insanity of pre-war Rome and Paris provide a stunning backdrop for the story ofTrintignant's political, moral, and sexual peregrinations...
...which held U.S. income levels at their 1939 depression low). Otherwise, those currencies, subject to a 200 per cent rate of inflation in 1946-48 were worthless as instruments of trade or investment. For a brief, terrifying time it looked as if the world economy would revert to its pre-war depression state, complete with a breakdown in world-wide trade and investment...
...racism of the white movement. White political action has known harassment and police brutality, and whites come to define the state in those terms. But black political action has given rise to an apparatus of repression that is as fascistic, if not as pervasive, as the S. S. of pre-war Germany. (The term's accuracy depends on the distinction that a state that is not technically fascist can use fascistic tactics.) Julian Bond's discovery of four years ago-that an American can be black and an American can dissent, but no American had better compound these two crimes...