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...history. His problem was to maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent arising from high living costs. The delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar to all Communist leaders: Frachon must not let his workers' drive for higher wages disrupt Russia's worldwide grand strategy. For example, anything approaching a Communist-led general strike in France would force a premature showdown in the French coalition government and stiffen the West's resistance against Russian demands at next month's Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference...
...secret of my success," Roscoe Pound once wrote, "is my blame memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb. (he was the son of a local judge), he used to disrupt Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at 17, he studied and practiced law, found time to take a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska (there is a roscopoundia lichen...
...bitter conclusion: "I cannot doubt that if there is a war within the next quarter of a century it will certainly destroy a very great part of the civilized world and disrupt it entirely. Perhaps after all that may be the best solution...
Premier Maurice Duplessis, who hates and fears Communists, cried excitedly: "It is part of a worldwide Communist plot to disrupt democratic institutions." But the Premier, who is empowered under Quebec's Padlock Law to close any establishment in which subversive activities are being carried on, could not move against the squatters until the courts rule on whether Gagnon's squat constituted forcible entry...
...Martyr Complex." A month later Stepinac again criticized Tito's systematic efforts to discredit and disrupt the Catholic Church. He was jailed for 17 days, then summoned to Tito's presence. Said the Marshal of the Archbishop: "I consider that he suffers from a martyr complex...