Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frightened by the stages of revolt gathering strength throughout all the occupied countries of Europe, Germany last week discarded its theme of "Pax Germanica" for a policy of "implacable terror." In Yugoslavia, against General Draja Mihailovich's isolated and loosely organized ''army of freedom," the Nazis struck with a fury born of frustration and fear...
...Madagascar the Axis might not only control the western Indian Ocean, but also attack the minerally rich Union of South Africa, only 800 miles away. Last week Prime Minister Smuts heard that Pierre Laval's rise to power in Vichy had been followed by a reign of terror in Madagascar, in which hundreds of Free French sympathizers were arrested. Prime Minister Smuts thereupon broke relations with Vichy, saying ''we do not cease to cherish a firm faith in the resurrection of France." It was rumored that South African troops would soon be sent to take Madagascar...
...outstanding Congress party member who favored accepting Britain's offer is slender, intellectual Chakravarti Rajago-palachariar ("C.R." for short), Congress leader in Madras. Last week, as Madras calmed down after its first panic before the Japanese terror, C.R.'s section of Congress suggested that Congress leaders sit down to discuss wartime and governmental problems with the leaders of the Moslem League. Said the declaration: "It is impossible for the people to think in terms of neutrality or passivity during invasion by an enemy power...
...then in broad daylight, at 12:30 Saturday noon, it happened. In from the sea swept a fleet of U.S. bombers, and for the first time in 2,602 years the island cities of Japan were subjected to enemy assault. Smashed in an instant of terror was the myth of immunity the people of Japan had accepted for generations as gospel...
...common soldier, Padilla joined bush-whiskered Emiliano Zapata, a tenant farmer whose legions of peon generals spread terror among the owners of great haciendas. One of the few incorruptible revolutionists, Zapata believed genuinely in the social revolution. All Mexicans remember his motto: "Man of the South, it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...