Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death of a Moslem police inspector sounded another warning of communal riots. Police had orders to warn crowds to disperse, then use tear gas, then ironbound lathees, then, as a last resort, to fire. Student demonstrators tried to confiscate all hats and neckties-symbols of Western domination-worn by Indians and Europeans in Bombay. Then they seized topees, burned them merrily in street-corner bonfires. This week, with rioting still sporadic, the pressure of an Indian National Congress party boycott and a general slowdown of the war effort faced the British...
Practical Socialism. The menace of termites is increased by their socialist tendencies-they are the most communal of insects. Some ants, wasps and bees are solitary; there are no solitary termites. They have three major castes: reproductives, workers and soldiers. With a male as well as a female reproductive in each colony, termites differ from all other social insects, which are matriarchic. They are the most fecund of all land animals. Some queens become enormously swollen with eggs, attaining a length of over five inches-20,000 times bigger than soldiers and workers. They produce as many...
Lord Woolton has done much more than see that everybody at the national table gets a helping by making the servings small. Since the war's start nearly 1,500 communal feeding centers for the poor have been opened, 200 in London alone. Some 18,000 pig clubs are producing 3,000 tons of "backyard" bacon a year. Little heavy or bulky food is brought in from abroad. The result of these measures, plus the fact that over 4,000,000 new acres have gone into production, is that Britain is able to get along, although her ships carry...
...Winston Churchill had never sounded more sincere. Foregoing all rhetoric, he gave Parliament straight, sensible reasons for the Cripps trip: "We should ill serve the common cause if we made a declaration which would be rejected by essential elements in the Indian world and which would provoke fierce communal disputes at the moment when the enemy is at the gates of India. . . . [Sir Stafford] carries with him the full confidence of the Government, and he has to procure the necessary measure of assent, not only from the Hindu majority but also from those great minorities amongst which the Moslems...
Four-hundred youth leaders of the Boston area heard Farley, Miss Emily Everett of the Boston Social Agencies Council, and Miss Hattle Smith, of the Massachusetts Labor Board open the meeting with the phophecy that civilian youth will inevitably be asked to perform serious duties during communal emergencies...