Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming on the heels of a Trojan-horse scare which swept over South America, the Quincy was hailed, a little extravagantly, as Washington's answer to the discovery of a Nazi plan for military occupation of Uruguay (TIME, June 24). That plan, a Uruguayan Congressional investigating committee asserted, had been calculated to convert "our nation into a country of peasants...
...failed to disclose any evidence to prove that Bridges actually was a Communist. Editorials in papers throughout the country suggested the advisability of compulsory military training for every young man in the country as a permanent measure. And a Grand Rapids foundry worker, glutted with stories of Quislings and Trojan Horses, shot and killed his neighbor because he thought the neighbor belonged to the fifth column...
...combination of the seventh column and a blessed event at the Trojan Horse's have made your reviewer feel very sheepish this morning. For it is only by some foul treachery that Andre Kostalonetz's first records for the new Green Seal Columbia could have turned out as badly as they...
...Europe or here, the poise and loyalty of American scholarship must remain above suspicion. Let us not learn too late that the educated fool can cite "historical facts" to prove his purpose just as well as the devil can cite scripture. Furthermore, let us not forget that the original Trojan horse that doomed Troy did not goose-step through the gates, but entered as a holy sanctimonious offering to the gods. George Kingsley Zipf '23, University Lecturer...
Chief equerry of Nazi Trojan horses in Latin America is General Wilhelm Faupel, square-headed, lantern-jawed, vociferous pressure man who persuaded Hitler to intervene in the Spanish War and was first Nazi Ambassador to Nationalist Spain. As President of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, he directs "cultural" relations, but also arranges contacts between aspiring Latin American generals and the Reichswehr. Speaking before the German Academy on the occasion of the Lima Pan-American Conference, he declared: "There is but one danger to Latin America. That is the United States...