Word: foment
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...Author Trotsky was concerned, publication of his Life of Stalin meant little. His literary reputation rested solidly on the three fat, incomparable volumes of his History of the Russian Revolution-his account of the social upheaval which he did much to inspire, foment and direct, and of which he had become the literary executor...
Hitler said to Rauschning: "America is constantly on the verge of revolution. It will not be hard for me to foment trouble and upheavals there. I can occupy the American people sufficiently with their own internal difficulties to keep them from meddling in Europe." Up to now Hitler has fulfilled almost to the letter everything he said he would accomplish, including "occupying the American people with their own difficulties." We are playing into his hands in a fashion even he probably never expected by our bickerings about our duty to our country. . . . For the next year or so (possibly...
...Everybody is thinking of Mexico, because of what happened in 1917, when German agents attempted to foment a revolution," he reminded. Since there are new some 200 or 300 Nazis acting as secretaries in the consulate in Mexico City a similar occurence may be attempted in the near future...
...American Association for Adult Education in Manhattan): "The moral and spiritual unpreparedness of the country is worse than its unpreparedness in arms. . . . The effect [of these authors' books] has been to immunize the young generation against any attempt in its own country by its own leaders to foment a war by waving moral flags and rhetorical phrases. But they have left it defenseless before an aggressor whose cynicism, brutality and whose stated intention to enslave present the issue of the future in moral terms...
...documents proved anything it was that U. S. diplomats sometimes talk with an unprofessional lack of reticence.But the German Foreign Office tried to draw the nonsensical conclusion that U. S.officials had conspired to foment the war. Evidently indulging in false hope that the publication would set up dissension in the U. S., it hinted at the publication of more documents showing the ugly wiles of U. S. diplomats...