Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a fascination in fear. There is a vortex that surrounds the concept of doom . . . No terror is greater than the unknown except the terror of the half-seen...
...kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot (Queen of the Swans) and her flock (the corps de ballet) huddling and quivering in terror before the evil magician...
While the Red terror in Czechoslovakia mounted, Hungary's highest court weighed the fate of Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister who had been sentenced to death as a Titoist traitor (TIME, Oct. 3). Rajk had specifically refused to appeal for clemency, but against his will his lawyer had sent an appeal to the Council of People's Courts. Rajk need not have worried: the council, not renowned for its clemency, rejected the appeal. Next day Rajk was hanged, presumably in Budapest...
...Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...
...jails, Nehru gave unstinted praise to the "great Lenin" and the "great new [Soviet Russian] world." His sentiments may have changed since then. He has come to deplore Communist methods. As Prime Minister, he has sanctioned stiff police action against India's Reds, jailing hundreds of them for terror and sabotage. He has (somewhat quaintly) denounced Indian Reds as "the greatest enemy to the cause of Communism...