ABSTRACT
No democratic country is today immune from the problem of terrorism. In some countries, of course, the murderous zealots are more of a problem than in others. It is difficult to generalize about terrorists, but the author think they can roughly be divided into two categories. The first, exemplified by the Irish Republican Army, are those who have fairly well defined political goals and a substantial basis of support in the population. The other kind, exemplified by the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and by the Italian Red Brigades, may be described as homicidal maniacs. The United Kingdom, the oldest and one of the most stable of the world’s democracies, has for ten years been struggling with a campaign of violence amounting almost to armed insurrection.
