Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist techniques have been the political tools of tyrants from time immemorial: murder and terror. We refuse to accept fraud and deceit as standards of public conduct. We reject murder and terror as political weapons...
...Draper told about terror in America. At the recent battle of the Roxy theater where she had picketed The Iron Curtain (TIME, May 24), her son Paul barely managed to rescue her from beneath "the feet of police horses...
...this very moment, however, I most earnestly call upon all of you: keep closely together in this time of terror and danger. Unite. I repeat, unite . . . Show that you are matched for this important epoch in which we live...
...purpose of this terror is simply to corrupt Berlin's brain and conscience, to destroy the value Berliners put on their lives, their homes, and their city. Terror has allies. Lesser and more ordinary suffering has corroded untold values. In countless brains and consciences, all political debate is held worthless. A typical newspaper cartoon this past winter showed a child pointing to a pile of cut timber: "Is that wood for our fireplaces, Daddy?" "No, son, it is for conference tables...
...kind of peace that left a lot to do for men like Roy Farran. Last year he was sent to Palestine to organize a group of ex-Commandos to counteract Jewish terror. Farran disliked the soft attitude of Britain's Palestine police ("Mild reproofs and a lot of tearful kissing"). Disguised as Jews, Farran and his men patrolled Palestine, rounding up suspects. He liked his work. "It was," he said, "as though we had drunk deeply of some invigorating fire...