Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...edition of Jack London, it grew by virtue of its translations (Proust, Sigrid Undset, Pearl Buck, Galsworthy) to 1 80 volumes a year. In Manhattan last week the Beehive Publishers (transliterated to Roy for the U.S. trade) were again as busy as bees. In between was a story of terror and struggle...
...Rome's ancient Jewish quarter, beyond the Tiber, less than a third of the former 18,000 residents were left. But even some Jews survived the Terror. Some found private refuges. And there was always the Vatican, a haven for many, regardless of religion or political affiliation...
They did not wreck Naples. They did not wreck Rome. The fear that extremist Nazis intend to ravage the rest of Europe has been carefully cultivated by German terror propaganda. But the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche, in the past no sucker for German propaganda, reported that such plans did exist. The paper's informants said that the catacombs and sewers of Paris were "stuffed with dynamite," that Warsaw, Prague, other cities were to be laid waste if the plans were carried out, that Berlin's frantic exploitation of Allied bomb damage was to be used to justify unlimited...
...said Souza, "you've made it." Thus the Anzio beachhead passed into history, after four months of toil, tribulation and terror. The beachhead front and the Cassino front at last were one, and this was high drama for home-front folks leaping at headlines. The Allied offensive in Italy formed the southern prong of the promised triple attack on Hitler's heartland. With things going so well in the south, D-day in the west and the pounce of the Russian giant could not be far behind...
Wells's fans were ravished by this williwaw of invective. Said British Reviewer Michael Foot: "Wells has produced a book rich with the flavor of Paris in the heyday of the terror. It might even have been written by the immortal Marat, whom Wells himself, in his Outline of History, has rescued from the clutches of defamation. From cover to cover it is angry, explosive and morally indignant. It revives all that is best in the great tradition of English invective." Others were reminded of a line from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: "Voices singing...