Word: fomentation
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Midnight March. The field commander for Colonel Garibaldi was that famed Catalonian patriot, Colonel Francisco Macia. For years he has striven to foment a revolution which should set his native Cataloniaf free from the dominance of Madrid. Last week he rode at midnight toward the Spanish frontier with a glad heart. Were not the invading 400 patriots equipped with rifles, machine guns, a medical corp, and even a strong box heavy with newly designed and minted Catalan money? All was prepared...
News came from Bucharest last week that the Soviet Russian radio stations at Moscow and Odessa are now broadcasting nightly criticisms of the Rumanian Government in Rumanian and appealing to Rumanian listeners-in to foment a revolt. Vexed, War Minister Mircescu has countered by ordering the Rumanian military radio station to send out "a terrific buzzing" whenever the Soviet Russian stations begin to broadcast...
President Calles announced that an army well equipped with armored cars, airplanes and poisoned gas would be sent to discipline and suppress the rebellious Yaqui who have been more or less continually in foment since the conquest of Mexico by Spain...
...moneys received by the British miners do not come from the Russian miners, but officially from the Soviet Government, whose intentions, openly avowed, are to foment revolution...
Four* of Zaniboni's alleged accomplices will be tried on an elaborate charge; "Complicity in an attempted premeditated homicide; conspiracy to foment civil war and revolution, and a violent change in the government and its form; the carrying out of secret and seditious propaganda; and the collection and administration of funds for these several purposes...