Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely hopeless," said CBS's roly-poly Correspondent William J. Dunn Jr. "Undoubtedly religious teachings about the glories of dying in battle provide a contributing factor, but Americans who have talked to Japanese prisoners believe the prime reason for their preference for death, suicidal if necessary, is abject terror over the possibility of torture by Allied soldiers." One prisoner, groveling at the feet of his captors, begged to be shot rather than tortured. Convinced that he would not be tortured, he danced gleefully, insisted upon shaking hands with one & all. Other Japanese had been taught that Australians, relishing yellow...
This latest fever in the New York schools' "reign one of day terror" came just one day after the (TIME, New Dec. 14) York City Teachers Guild (A. F. of L.) and other teacher groups openly asked police to protect them from violent students. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia replied that the terror was exaggerated, that the New York cop would remain the children's friend...
...Blockbuster bombs on northern industrial cities have been followed by looting and civilian terror, a run on banks, wild Brambles for safety in the countryside. R.A.F. reconnaissance planes photographed the bomb damage. One-third of the war plants in Italy's concentrated industrial area have been damaged...
...Franco's reply to Hitler: "Many. thanks to you and the German people. . . . May your arms triumph in the glorious undertaking of freeing Europe from the Bolshevik Terror. With . . . friendship and affection...
This incident is only a climax in a reign of terror for New York City teachers. Recently teachers have had their eyes blackened by students, been hit by rocks, pelted with blackboard erasers. One girl has struck at least nine teachers, who are for bidden to lift a finger (though a male teacher recently risked his job to trounce a boy who had insulted a woman teacher...