Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming on the heels of a Trojan-horse scare which swept over South America, the Quincy was hailed, a little extravagantly, as Washington's answer to the discovery of a Nazi plan for military occupation of Uruguay (TIME, June 24). That plan, a Uruguayan Congressional investigating committee asserted, had been calculated to convert "our nation into a country of peasants...
Uruguay had the worst scare, and, like Mexico, went after big fish (see p. 34). A Congressional investigating committee gathered evidence on which it planned to dissolve German organizations and start criminal proceedings against "Fiührer" Julius Dalldorf and other leaders. Before this could be done, German Minister Otto Langmann announced that the Nazi Party and German Labor Front had been voluntarily dissolved. The Government replied by arresting twelve Germans, went ahead with its report, which traced Nazi activities directly to Minister Langmann. Three German gliders, one parachute and a dismantled radio station were found in a Nazi Stutzpunkt...
Meanwhile, from Windsor came a fresh scare. Acting on the report of Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Reynolds, president of the Canadian Corps Association, that 7,500 armed German Bund members lurked just across the Detroit River in the U. S., a hundred men of the Essex (tank) regiment were rushed to St. Luke Road barracks on the international line. Special guards were assigned to 24-hour duty at the bridge and tunnel; patrols in the river were increased...
...begins in England when war with Germany was only a weekly scare and not an hourly terror. It shows war overtaking children. The snout-nosed gas mask appears. For infants too small for the mask, there is the gasproof container. There are shots of a terrified baby being forced into a container, staring through its big glass pane in panic as he is sealed in. In their back yards people construct flimsy-looking air-raid shelters, decorate them with potted plants...
...Said one come-what-may man later: "The broadcast had us all worried, but I knew it would at least scare ten years' life out of my mother...