Word: factionalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese Government is in the hands of extremists. One faction-the Army group-wants to seize the prize of the Indies; another wants to overthrow the Emperor and seize power for itself. Foremost among the latter is a dark character named Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, who has been involved in enough shady operations to give several firing squads employment, but who has never been punished with anything but words...
Settling in Saskatchewan, far from Peter Verigin, the Dukhobors were baffled and confused, succumbed to faction, fanaticism, hallucination. With $30,000 from kind Philadelphia Quakers the Dukhobors bought horses, cows, tools-only to set free the animals and destroy the metal tools in a sudden burst of sympathy for their "little brothers" (the beasts) and "the men tormented in the mines." They even refused to kill grain-eating gophers, which they snared and then freed in other people's fields. Singing groups of Dukhobors often marched off into nowhere looking for the Promised Land...
...have made decided progress but we have lost most of three precious months during which Congress wrangled and harangued over tax laws. . . . The real bottle-neck has thus been centred not in the Army, not in the Navy, not in industry, but in a certain faction of Congress itself. The delay is the fault of the very men who blame it on industry...
...split in the Student Union was finally consummated last night as Alan Gottlieb '41 led 52 of his full aid adherents away from the strict non-interventionist faction to form the Harvard Liberal Union. More than 25 others are expected to follow during the next two days...
...maintenance of a forward moving American democracy whose civil liberties and social gains must be extended as well as preserved in a program of national defense" and "the building up of hemispherical solidarity through a good neighbor policy of cooperation and assistance. In these beliefs the Marx-Stange faction concur...