He would soon complete The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Short Stories (1938) and start work on For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
Incredible as it may seem, the apparent absence of any laws on the books that would make it a crime simply to organize essentially a Libyan Fifth Column for the purposes of accomplishing America's violent dismembering may mean that -- like Al Capone -- Louis Farrakhan could only be prosecuted for more prosaic violations.
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Indeed, even before any new influx of Arabs into Israel occurs, the Jewish State is increasingly facing a "time bomb" of its own -- an armed and dangerous Palestinian nation emerging in its midst and the prospect of a fifth column formed from Arab citizens of Israel.
One of the things that could tie the United States down considerably would be the emergence of a terrorist Fifth Column here at home.
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This means that as Israel prepares to strike Iran, it must minimize Iran's ability to retaliate from fifth column bases inside the country.
I'm even cautiously optimistic that the current impasse over gun regulation is a bad-equilibrium that few consumers actually want, and that a reconstructed Freedom Group, fighting for sensible change as a fifth column from within the industry, might well find that many people -- even a significant portion of the NRA's members -- would buy from a truly responsible (and high quality) gunmaker if given the chance.
Moreover, they are further augmented by Syria's massive Scud missile and artillery arsenals and by a frightening potential fifth column among Israeli Arabs in the Galilee.
Taken together these organizations represent a subversive movement, indeed a fifth column, within our society the likes of which America has never had to deal with in its history.
As I pointed out in a debate on Tuesday, with a man associated with both organizations and arguably the Bush Administration's senior Muslim official, Suhail Khan, the Brotherhood is an instrument the Islamists have been using to foster a Fifth Column in America.
Second, the Islamist movement in the United States and the West is a well-organized and funded fifth column and must be treated as such.
That is particularly true insofar as there is reason to believe that Wahhabi enterprises are giving rise to perhaps the most insidious enemy of all: an Islamist Fifth Column operating within this country.
Indonesia's military leader at the time, Suharto, saw the country's ethnic Chinese minority as a potential fifth column.
The problem with cancer cells is that they are not foreign invaders, but fifth-column traitors.
Overseas Chinese, on the other hand, were long feared in South-East Asia and beyond as a potential fifth column for a powerful communist state that might want to export its revolution.
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