Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week, Britain's worst flood of this century and a hurricane that killed at least 15 spread terror in southern England...
...main tragedy-namely, that Greece was never liberated from fear-has been given its proper perspective, though I shall venture to add that emphasis was lacking to transmit that idea vividly enough to people who do not know the perpetual terror of inescapable fear...
...perplexing reality in Greece's present national life. It is also the most important single factor in that country's current stagnation. No reconstruction, no rehabilitation, not even a simple personal improvement in the economic field can be expected when that all-permeating fear, born of uncertainty, terror and outright hopelessness, paralyzes every man's moves and every man's motivations. Take that fear away from Greece and it will be back to normal within three to five years. And that, with a minimum of financial support from abroad. Leave Greece one more year...
...After three days & nights of terror, in Rawalpindi proper the situation is now fairly quiet, but in the surrounding countryside there is a reign of lawlessness on a scale not known in British India since the Mutiny of 1857. Every village is prey to roving gangs. Groups of scared refugees flee through the fields as gangs of 15 to 30 men trudge the highways, armed with long, dangerous-looking clubs. From the crest of one hill, I could see five villages burning. At Mandra junction at dawn on March 9, 2,000 Moslems swooped down on Hindu and Sikh quarters...
...democrat knows that reaction, monarchism, and fascism are futile as defenses against communism. Only democracy can fight for democracy. The Royalist government of Greece, elected by fear, force, and fraud, supported by terror and concentration camps, staffed by stooges of the late dictator Metaxas and the Nazis, is no democracy and cannot fight for democracy...