Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRASH! Every 15 minutes all night long bombs burst in Havana as token that the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Gerardo Machado had commenced. Beyond breaking a great many windows and killing a three-year-old child, the bombs did little damage. When it comes to terror, horn-spectacled Dictator Machado is still more than a match for his opponents. Cursing, police reserves and ununiformed gangs of the dreaded Porra (secret police) poured out and went to work...
...Conditions under the present reign of terror in this country are without parallel...
Three weeks ago he telegraphed from Salzburg in terror, begging Capt. Roehm's forgiveness. There was no answer. Early last week two motor cars full of young Nazis found the village of Durchholzen where Dr. Bell was hiding. Servants at the inn heard a violent argument in his bedroom. Two Nazis came downstairs, went outside to confer with their friends. Suddenly the telephone line was cut. One huge young man with a pale face and staring eyes went back upstairs alone. There were shots in Dr. Bell's bedroom. A porter, rushing up in his green apron...
From Shanghai, where he had lived in constant terror of kidnapping since fleeing Japan's invasion of Jehol, disgraced Marshal Chang Hsiao-Hang, resigned ruler of Peiping, sailed for Italy with his wife and 17 female "secretaries...
...stories of Jewish oppression, but the promptness and violence of world protest seemed to take them by surprise. Handsome Adolf's invaluable assistant, Minister Without Portfolio Hermann Goring, summoned foreign correspondents to his apartment for an angry, hour-long speech to the effect that the Jewish reign of terror had not taken place -but that it would stop at once...