Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From General Douglas MacArthur came an order: henceforth all "who have deceived and misled the people of Japan into embarking on world conquest" and all "influential" members of nationalist (or terrorist) societies are to be barred from public office...
...long silence emerged the grand old man of a bygone Japanese liberalism-indomitable Yukio Ozaki, 85, ex-Cabinet Minister, ex-mayor of Tokyo, Diet member since 1890, lifelong champion of parliamentary government. He had survived terrorist threats, Government persecution and the corrosion of "thought-control." Now stone deaf, Ozaki last week called on his Diet colleagues to resign rather than "persist in past practices of blind obedience to the Government...
...Russia had used "terrorist tactics" to install a "highly unrepresentative" government of its own choosing...
...seizure of power in Greece. ¶ It had been much less zealous in fighting the Germans than in fighting other Greeks. ¶ELAS had committed atrocities during the civil war. The Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos, estimated the number of persons killed by ELAS, or by the Communist Party's terrorist organization, OPLA, at 10,000. Many of them were civilians. ¶ The three EAM trade-union leaders, who claimed to represent Greek labor, were all formerly associated with Moscow's Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern). They had no more authority to speak for labor than labor leaders loyal...
...disarming and disbanding of ELAS. But Secretary Siantos had a condition of his own: an amnesty for all, not merely some, of the ELAS prisoners in the Government's jails. Many of the prisoners in question belonged to OPLA (People's Political Security Organization), the Communist terrorist organization...