Word: cauldron
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...French are hampered, as the British are not, by powerful Communist parties at home and in the colonies. The Communists did not create France's colonial troubles, but they aggravate them. Last week, although most Frenchmen did not know or care much about it, a cauldron of hatred was seething over half the French colonial world...
Good Intentions. A low, satisfied murmur swept the crowded, orderly courtroom. But for the rest of the world the truth was not so easy to distill out of the steaming cauldron of hatred, feuds and rivalries that was Yugoslavia when Hitler struck. To millions outside who remembered his early heroism, his rescue of U.S. and British flyers, it was hard to believe Mihailovich a traitor. What, then, was he guilty...
Great chunks of the British Empire seethed last week in the cauldron of world unrest. While mutiny and riot sizzled and popped through India, Egypt, Palestine and Jamaica, Britons discussed in querulous tones the propriety of General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster's extra shirt...
...Palestine cauldron was aboil again. Jews, now driven by the need to save survivors from the European holocaust, were demanding the immediate reopening of large-scale immigration into the Holy Land. Arabs, now united in a strong seven-land league, were protesting threateningly against any such concession. Both sides addressed their pleas and threats to Palestine's harassed custodian, Great Britain...
...Germany of those crucial years was a cauldron of unrest both political and social, dominated by mob tensions and violence...