Word: disunion
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...Guard youth groups, Mao's standard-bearers of the Cultural Revolution, were a grave disappointment. Instead of promoting a new civilization in China, the Red Guards pursued personal goals, and they split into a myriad of factions. Party bureaucrats throughout China took advantage of Red Guard disunion and indecisiveness to organize their own youth contingents which staged battles with the Mao-inspired radicals. Workers, who were jealous of Red Guard privileges, frequently took the opportunity to chastise Mao's "Little Red Generals." As the level of violence rose throughout the country in 1967, Mao called on the army to restore...
...unity" which de Gaulle is accused of violating is nothing but a sterile, forcibly-imposed facade of unanimity, then perhaps the alliance would fare better in disunion. But if unity resides in common aspirations, and in defense against a common threat, then free debate over policy threatens nothing, except John Kennedy's personal pride...
...Common Market is now only a mechanism and no longer a living thing." Alfred Müller-Armack, West Germany's chief negotiator at Brussels, quit his job in disgust. Jean Monnet, the dynamic optimist who is the father of the Common Market, lamented that "there now looms disunion with its inherent dangers.'' Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told his country on TV: "What happened at Brussels was bad. Bad for us, bad for Europe, bad for the whole world...
...Disunion in South Africa...
...When disunion has become a fixed and certain fact," wrote New York City's Democratic Mayor Fernando Wood to the city common council 18 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860, "why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master-to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her commerce...