Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later British police swooped down on 250 Jewish terrorist suspects, whisked them out of Palestine by plane to an undisclosed destination. As the 27th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration* came & went last week, the air was thick with rumors and recriminations. It looked as if trouble-shooting Lord Gort would soon have plenty of trouble on his hands...
Noose & Sword. Few people in the past have thought of the law-obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme really stemmed from pagan traditions. Its extralegal courts were held under mystic linden trees, on open hilltops or beneath great oaks. The paraphernalia included a two-handed sword on which the members swore, and a noose of linden fibers for the victim. The sentence of its secret tribunals was always...
Concluded G.B.S.: "The Berlin child did not grow up at all or grew up a nervous wreck or a disciplinarian terrorist. The Connemara child grew up humane and healthy but at best a noble savage. The problem is how to produce adults who are both humane and cultivated. Clearly they must have not only the Berlin discipline but the Connemara massage...
...potent figure emerged in German Europe (and, according to Moscow, got shot in the arm last week). The new man of power: 46-year-old, heavy-jawed Joseph Darnand, an experienced terrorist who now commands all police and military guards in France, dominates Vichy...
Darnand was a sergeant in World War I, a lieutenant in World War II, was highly decorated in both. He formed his own Fascist outfit, the Chevaliers du Glaive, in the '30s became prominent among the Cagoulards ("Hooded Men") a secret terrorist group which organized bombings and assassinations, stored arms depots all over France. Darnand was prosecuted for complicity in the murder of a business associate, for being too close to the Duce's intelligence service, for bad checks issued in his name by his mistress...