Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Religious freedom in Russia is a very thin "opening wedge" indeed. War is a time of quick and violent change, of surging idealism and consequently unparalleled opportunity, and it is surprising that Mr. Roosevelt has not been quicker to realize this. In spite of the terror and chaos abroad, and in spite of our conviction that the tragedy is for us as well as them, America does stand in a relatively favored position. It is in our power to direct the course of the war and of the final settlement because our strength is so vital to the Allies. Certainly...
...faces of Russians were drawn last week. Not only high cheekbones, not only the Slavic nose, not only whiskers identified 175,000,000 Russian faces. Anxiety lined all those faces. It was not terror that made their lips tight, their eyes tired; not despair, not resignation. It was the awful waiting...
Adolf Hitler still retained an adequate bargaining point: 1,500,000 Frenchmen surrounded by his sentries and barbed wire. But not even the political genius of Hitler could guarantee that all of the 500,000 would not make trouble for him once they got home to their terror-ridden native land...
When farmers refused to pay the Stirone organization a fee for working on the projects, a reign of terror was begun which finally ended in the trial of Stirone unionists-but not Nick. From the stand, Stirone was accused of telling an aide that he wanted a contractor and two C.I.O organizers murdered, that he wanted people to "shiver in their boots when Nick Stirone was mentioned." Last month Stirone was hauled into court by the business agent of a laborer's local, who wanted Nick put under bond to keep the peace because "he said he would cave...
There are excellent chapters on the prehistory of the Communist Party, then posturing as the Workers Party; on "the Cult of Russia-Worship"; on the "Communist Milquetoast" (Earl Browder); on "Stalin's Children's Hour" (The American Youth Congress); on "the Typewriter Front" and "the Intellectual Red Terror." "Cocktails for Spanish Democracy" includes some of the plainest and clearest speaking yet heard on the befogged subject of the Red stake in Loyalist Spain. Less outspoken (for reasons of libel) is the chapter on "America's Own Popular Front Government," the Communist penetration of the New Deal...