Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sensation. A significant despatch last week indicated that Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," has been re-elected chairman of the Third International, or world-wide Communist bureau for propaganda, terror and general subversion...
Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...
...beings who care to enjoy their prerogative. In the present instance the judge who decided in favor of the lesser evil was undoubtedly acting both sanely and with a judicial preciseness. Better a Tartuffe dead and a harlequin living, than more moss covered morals and a reign of petty terror. Yet it is rather unfortunate that the issue could not have been more clear cut and satisfying. Wowseries are often quite as tire some as ethical sentimentalizing...
...State Department tried to extract the terror from the still unrealized invitation by explaining that undoubtedly the League was merely summoning a meeting of the members of the Court to consider the U. S. reservations, and that there was nothing in such an act which would prevent the U. S. from getting agreement to its reservations individually by note from the Court members...
...will be of interest to those who esteem Flecker's genius of the first order, and to whom even an incomplete sketch from his pen is of value. In the first scene of the play there is a shipwreck. The stage in complete darkness, a shrieking wind carries terror to reader or audience; the lights of a pitching steamer appear and on the instant a grinding crash is heard; the lights shudder, become fixed. For a moment only, the moon escapes from heavy clouds to shine on the face of Don Juan* as he leaps overboard to swim ashore. There...