Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations trembled before a climax in Russia (see col. 3). They witnessed a terror in France (see p. 24). They got a new campaign in Iran (see below). As had been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked...
...kind of unshakeable integrity that is so great it impresses itself on all those who work with him. (Said one: "Every time I see Henry L. Stimson I think I see God hovering over his left shoulder. And when he rises in righteous indignation he's a holy terror...
Describing the reign of terror in the U.S., Signor Tosi told how Axis citizens were jailed with common criminals, herded into concentration camps. Even women, he said, must suffer these outrages, "such is the fear that has gripped the soul of this psychologically childish people [of the U.S.]." Worst of all, the Italians in the camp at Missoula, Mont, are "watched by policemen, the majority of whom are Jews...
Chief speaker was ex-Tribune Foreign Correspondent Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror), a shrewd expert on Nazi fifth-columning, whose subject was What Is Wrong with the Chicago Tribune? Characterizing Colonel McCormick's editorial policy as "criminal nonsense," Taylor coupled the Tribune with Wheeler and Lindbergh as "dirty fighters who are using the political equivalent of poison...
...though bewitched with the prospect of stealing something from Russia, were bothered by lack of real German support, were bewildered by Red parachutists in the Ploesti oil fields and in the border town of Jassy. Soviet fifth columnists in Jassy joined parachutists in giving the Rumanians two days of terror, which Iron Guardists finally answered with terror-by executing "500 Jewish Communists...