| He feared the activities of a communist fifth column, and enacted draconian laws to restrict free expression and assembly. |
| It has become nothing short of a national menace, an enemy of this country's interests and a fifth column in time of war. |
| I want to warn against the fifth column here that tries to corrode our way of life. |
| For they stand accused of being a fifth column, a homegrown wing of a global movement bent on terrorising the West. |
| They are discriminated against because of fear that they could be a fifth column which would destroy the state from within. |
| Allegations that they may constitute a fifth column are beginning to look increasingly shallow. |
