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With recent developments in the Near East pointing toward increasing ferment in the Arab world, Philip W. Ireland, instructor in Government, yesterday pointed out that many Arab leaders, though by no means the majority, are willing to enter into alliance with the devil himself if that means promoting the Arab nationalist movement...
...peace pact with Yugoslavia, the day before German troops moved in, and Soviet petulance at the occupation of Bulgaria had shown Russia's attitude toward Hitler's drive into the Balkans. Last week, with the Germans pressing in on the Dardanelles and the Middle East in a ferment, Stalin seemed preparing to make the best deal he could to get something out of the grab bag for Russia. If this scheme succeeds, his will be the glory. If it fails, Molotov will be the goat...
Behind all this ferment were some un-fevered facts. Whenever industry skyrockets, labor troubles follow inevitably in a smoky trail. At last midweek the number of strikes in defense industries had actually dropped from twoscore a few weeks ago, with 47,000 workers out, to 27, with an estimated 40,000 out. There were still some 36,000,000 people in the U. S. (not counting agricultural workers) at work...
More Spanish than any other kind of blood fills the veins of Haiti's Stenio Vincent. He is a natural orator and his oratory has carried him far. On the strength of it he had become President of the Chamber of Deputies when, in 1915, after years of ferment, President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was massacred with 167 political prisoners and the U. S. Marines marched in. To a Marine officer who ordered the Chamber dismissed, Stenio Vincent answered: "Merde." That made him a sort of hero...
...India is in a state of political ferment for which no parallel can be found since the civil disobedience movement of ten years ago." So wrote the London Times's India correspondent last week. He was putting the situation mildly...