Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worldwide Ferment. Some of the dazed publicity that last week followed the unveiling of the atomic bomb gave the impression that it was created from scratch, under the terrible urgency...
Nothing could have been farther from the fact. The urgency of war had indeed hastened the achievement. But the explosive release of atomic energy was clearly foreshadowed by the ferment of atomic physics in 1940, before the security blackout was clamped down. The experiments popping five years ago all over the world (including Japan) were based on a number of fundamental discoveries in the past half-century...
...warily as a sleepwalker. Wrote the Herald Tribune's Sonia Tomara: "De Gaulle has passed hours interviewing members of resistance groups. ... He has noticed that they are not in agreement either among themselves or with the men who have been in exile. ... He knows the country is in ferment, seething with new ideas and aspirations, but also craving peace and order. . . . His conclusion has been that he should not take rash measures...
...Europe was in bold ferment last week. In Paris, members of the Underground caught and killed loud-mouthed Fascist Philippe Henriot, Vichy Minister of Propaganda. In the sun-baked foothills of the Pyrenees, patriots took and held for two days the storied town of Bergerac...
Resistance bubbled up like a ferment within conquered France-and was met by a wave of hysterical repression. The Paris radio admitted some 4,000 arrests within 15 days. Swiss observers at the border saw French guerrilla fighters gunning it out with regular German troops. There was sabotage as usual...