Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battlefields. It might not unreasonably be expected that men trained to knowledge would be able to read the meaning of history as it flows by; to lead the public in calmly seeking truth amid error, prejudice and fear; to use their knowledge to illumine the scene of darkness and terror. But no! In this last war professors were worse than politicians. They were the blind leading the blind, the mad inciting...
...puppets in the Master's hands. Likewise the wild story about the kidnapping of a Dutch statesman by a Nazi spy-ring is more form than contents. The only concession to reality is the final appeal to the United States to steel herself against aggression a scene of piercing terror which shows Mr. Hitchcock still in firm control. To the very end, "Foreign Correspondent" remains his show. The result is that the thriller has reached a height that it will be difficult to surpass...
...pals, Angelo ("Julie") Catalano, State's witness. The two had not met since Gurino tried and failed to take his fellow mobster for a ride last spring because he feared that Catalano would talk. When Catalano saw his would-be assassin, he went white with terror, hid behind detectives. But as he listened to the whining confession, Catalano took heart, came out from behind his protectors, stared unbelievingly at the cringing fat man in the chair. At the end his smile was tipped with scorn. As for Vito Gurino, it looked as if he would end his story...
...prohibition era, he became in the short space of two years, the public pal of J. Edgar Hoover, the No. 1 G-man of the repeal era." In 1932 Winchell's intimacy with gangland led to fear he would be rubbed out for knowing too much. In terror he fled to California, returned weeks later with a new enthusiasm for law, G-men, Uncle Sam, Old Glory...
...Hitler's policy of terror...