Word: scapegoatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...
...last six months), and the most staggering defeat of all was its defeat at Fiat (TIME, April 11). Recriminations filled the air. "Time after time," charged Communist Deputy Agostino Novella, "the party had no adequate warning of what was happening." The Communists were hungry for a scapegoat. A meeting last week of the five national secretaries of the party found one. They decided "to liberate Comrade Roveda" from his onerous duties and told him to go take a health cure. To succeed the ousted comrade, they appointed 50-year-old Novella, the man who put the finger on Roveda...
Khrushchev baited his trap with the most abject apology any Communist leader ever made. Tito's ejection from the Cominform was a terrible mistake, said Khrushchev. "We sincerely regret what happened, and resolutely reject the things which occurred, one after the other, during that period." He produced a scapegoat. The trouble, he said, all came because of "the provocative role which was played in the relations between Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. by enemies of the people-Beria, Abakumov and others-who have been unmasked." (Beria and Abakumov, tidily removed by execution, are always useful on such occasions...
...have no desire for ideological ties with the Soviet Union any more than we want ideological ties with the U.S.," said one official. Nor was any Yugoslav pleased by Khrushchev's transparent ruse of making Beria the scapegoat. Said a Tito official: "You can't treat history like a detective story. It's an insult to the Yugoslav people to think they would swallow this...
...childhood trauma to use as a scapegoat. He faces the responsibility of revising his goals in life. In this case, the businessman realized that he had lived a one-sided life. Not only did he slow down, but he was satisfied to do so-and could take trips without anxiety or giddiness...