Word: disrupters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...White House went Martin Dies, fuming with defiance. Out last week was a 1,000-page Dies Committee report on Communism in the U. S. It outlined the program of the Communist Party, named names, charged the Reds with plotting to disrupt defense industries, destroy the morale of the armed forces of the U. S., discourage enlistments, foment civil war. Popping with ideas, Dies, in Texas, had telegraphed the President for a conference...
Immediately there develops an embarrassing situation--a situation equally difficult for the boy and for the coach--a situation that can readily disrupt the complete coordination essential to the team...
...just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...
...That wouldn't be too good, as I'm told that it would disrupt the three essential factors of the course, Unity, Unity, and Unity...
...martial sweep. Its weaknesses are Regler's weaknesses - sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...