Word: scapegoatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warsaw, Bishop Czelaw Kaczmarek, latest scapegoat in Communism's running battle with the church, was consigned to prison for twelve years. After two years in prison, the bishop had "confessed" to such crimes as treason, spying for the U.S. and the Vatican-more than enough to hang him for, if he were really guilty. ¶ British officials in Germany paid 22,500 Deutsche Mark ($5,357) damages to Hans Klose, an ex-Wehrmacht private who was captured by the British and turned over to the Russians for five years' imprisonment on the mistaken impression that...
This mass delusion does not, as some self-pitying eggheads would like to think, stem from a chronic public distaste for intellectuality. It is the outlet for frustrations born of war and preparation for war. It is the kind of scapegoat-flogging that almost inevitably results from seemingly endless international tension. In American education, the public has found reflections of Communism it can attack more safely and successfully than those in the distant and powerful Soviet state. It matters not that the very vulnerability of "red professors" is an indication of the irrelevance to the total scheme of Soviet conspiracy...
...freedom that the CRIMSON has chronicled for the last five years. Every timid administrator, every repressive rule, every indignantly patriotic a legislator feeds upon this distrust, and doing so, increases it vehemence. This year's novelty, the Congressional investigations, are but one, albeit the most gaudy manifestation of the scapegoat temper. You can call the Veldes and Jenners whatever you like: ambitious intolerants, "junketeering gumshoes," or violator of the spirit of due process of law. But the volume of their fan mail testifies to the faithfulness with which they represent and satisfy public opinion...
...contributions of universities, hesitate to speak up against it. Nothing that the only men, books and ideas presently being purged are those they have opposed in social politics since the New Deal, they privately thank investigator for devastating their political opponents. Unfortunately, they underestimate the awful appetite of the scapegoat desire. They might look back at the French Revolution, when purger followed purged to the guillotine, or over to Massachusetts, where the "reds-in-education" issue is the stick Democrats use to beat Republicans. By blandly assuming the attack on academic freedom can stop before it reaches their own ideas...
...need of a scapegoat to blame for his inflation troubles, Juan Perón last week scrapped his recent policy of sweet forbearance to the U.S. (adopted after President Eisenhower's inauguration) and took a running dive back on to his old, angry anti-U.S. line. In his annual message to the reconvening Congress, Peron accused U.S. press services of an "infamous campaign of lies" to spread the idea that Argentina is undergoing a crisis. (A bomb, the eighth in Buenos Aires that day, burst one block from the Congress building while he was speaking.) That afternoon...