Word: disruptions
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...Russians are not striking out blindly. There is method in their madness. At the most obvious level they may hope to disrupt the smooth working of the Marshall Plan, which is designed to be a two-sided proposition. For its part, the United States proposes to furnish money and materials. But Europe is supposed to organize itself into an economic entity to make the best use of its resources. Communist inspired strikes and discontent could disrupt reconstruction and cause weariness and dissatisfaction in both the United States and Europe...
Young drew.blood. Like every railroadman, Young had heard of the reported "gentleman's agreement" by which western railroads since 1934 have slowed their fastest freight lines to the speed of their slowest competitors. The railroads justify it by saying that to speed them up would congest freight yards, disrupt passenger service and create locomotive shortages (by increasing the number of short, fast trains). But the U.S. Government, in an antitrust suit, charged that the slowdown was primarily to prevent rate cuts by slower lines trying to compete with faster ones...
...would disrupt "human relations." "It would encourage distrust, suspicion, and arbitrary attitudes . . . remove the settlement of differences from the bargaining table to courts of law . . . inevitably embittering both parties...
Jinnah was already using his new power to disrupt India further. In the face of Jawaharlal Nehru's blunt warning to the Indian princes ("We will not recognize the independence of any state in India"), Jinnah began courting them. Most princes had already decided to join Hindu India (see map), but the Nizam of Hyderabad (a Moslem) and Maharaja of Travancore (a Hindu) had each said he would go it alone. Jinnah dangled alliance-bait before them: "If states wish to remain independent ... we shall be glad to discuss with them and come to a settlement." Big Kashmir, still...
Roberts told the packed forum that countries in the U.N. are indulging in the same kind of power politics that they used before the war. "Unless drastic steps are taken, a clash of national sovereignities will disrupt the U.N. and result in war," he said...