Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast of his 1937 New Year's sermon on Germany's "de-Christianization" by "the forces of evil who despotically govern us." In the U.S. fellow German Thomas Mann paid tribute: "Here is a man who went his way to the cross with full awareness of the terror...
...Axis technique he had interesting observations; how the innocent press of the world plays the Axis game by employing "terror symbols" systematically used by the Axis radio: words like "annihilated," "total," "paralyzing," etc. How "the use of absurd exaggerations and fantastic assertions is an essential part of the German strategy. It removes to a large extent the stigma attached to propaganda by giving to it an appearance of ballyhoo"-i.e., something which the U.S. radio audience has long been conditioned to accept good-humoredly...
Without the aid of weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films...
...task," explained General Leslie James ("Holy Terror'') Morshead, Commander of Tobruk, "is to drive a corridor from the perimeter [of our defenses] to the Axis road, which we hope to cut at El Duda. There we should meet the South Africans...
...decline of the Tribune's once-excellent foreign service may also be charged directly to the Colonel. When Tribune Correspondent Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror) predicted that the Russian-German Pact would give Russia Bessarabia he got the ax thus...