Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot and the spot was furnace-hot. The U.S. wanted a great deal of information, and all of it straight. Fortnight ago OFF Chief MacLeish had talked of "the strategy of terror" of the Axis Governments, had contrasted it with his own belief in a "strategy of truth." This was a heartening note. Citizens who could imagine what he was up against were inclined to reserve judgment; to hope that MacLeish's OFF would be able to give them not puzzling facts and figures but the enlightening truth itself...
...made famine is like, what it is to be regarded as slaves of a Herrenvolk. France after 1871 and Germany after 1918 were not like Europe last week. Those post-war French and Germans had been beaten, crippled, humiliated, but they had not been subjected to a blueprinted terror. Last week...
...Europe the innocent are punished for the acts of invisible rebels, under the principle of "collective responsibility." Another weapon in the arsenal of terror is the deliberate snuffing out of scholars, on the theory that even nonpolitical scholarship breeds a thirst for freedom. Another is torture. When a German policeman was killed in the Czech mining town of Kladno, the Gestapo tortured the mayor and all members of the municipal council to sweat out the name of the killer. By the time it was learned that it was German soldiers who had killed the German policeman, the mayor had committed...
...Order. Actually the "New Order" is not a plan but a chaotic attempt to rule 150,000,000 people by terror, hunger and propaganda. German propaganda promises a unified Europe; there is nothing Germany wants less. She treats every captive nation differently: Danes the best, Poles the worst, Polish Jews worst of all. This prevents the captives from having any common ground to stand on. Germany is at the center of the web, but there are few cross-threads from nation to nation...
...describing the molting eagles of Napoleon I (The Hundred Days) and the tacky grandeurs of Napoleon III (The Second Empire). But is it, as Mr. Guedalla himself would ask, is it the style with which to describe Britain's great wartime leader, the human symbol in whom the terror, courage, hatreds and hopes of millions of democratic men are centered...