Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Alcide de Gasperi could have sunk through the floor. The Soviet Government had caught the Italian police redhanded in the act of disseminating a confidential report that Russia was sponsoring an underground terrorist organization throughout Italy. Called the "Troika" (Russian for a vehicle drawn by three horses abreast), the organization was a ripe blend of Italian, Yugoslav and Russian comrades. In response to Russia's protest, Premier de Gasperi expressed "deepest regret." The existence of the Troika has been confirmed by the Italian police and by Allied intelligence services...
Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Zionist terrorist organization, had threatened to extend its violence to the British Isles...
...question plaguing all Palestinian Jews both today and during the 1937-1939 period in which the action of the book takes place: can the Jewish need for a home in Palestine be better met by the peaceful text-book tactics which have brought frustration, or by the more expedient terrorist activities tainted with the unsavory odor of gangsterism? It takes Joseph two years to decide upon the second course. Through Joseph's eyes, Koestler gives the reader a vivid impression of a typical Marxist agricultural commune, and the immense difficulties involved in buying desert and turning it into a self...
Joseph's decision to become a terrorist, however, is precipitated by the Arab murder of the woman he loves, Dina. It hardly seems fair to hinge the major decision of the book on this one incident, but Koestler probably justifies this disturbing reasoning on the grounds that it is just some such private crisis that makes up mens' minds on more broadly ideological questions. Aside from this one questionable bit, Koestler's argument is both fairly and illuminatingly presented. Arabs and British as well as Jews are given a chance to speak their pieces effectively and clearly; Joseph, Koestler...
...London, Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones called the terrorist attacks "abominations and cold-blooded outrages," warned that they would "postpone the day when a just and lasting settlement can be reached." Creech Jones said that Palestine authorities were "very alive" to the complexities of the problem. He did not say whether he meant Colonel Webb...