Word: fomentations
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Third International. Soviet organs raked the French Cabinet savagely for its suppression of the French Communist Party, and at Moscow last week the long somnolent Third International, whose business is to foment "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," was again heard from in a broadside by V. Florin. He appealed to "workers of the World" to "fight against capitalistic warmongers...
Those Iron Guards who fled from Rumania to Germany found a welcome not unlike that given to the Sudeten "refugees" in September. That Germany would threaten to invade Rumania was improbable, since the two have no common frontier. That Germany might foment a Nazi revolt in Rumania, under the slogan FIGHT AGAINST WORLD JEWRY, had become increasingly probable...
...human nature. The Woman with a Past who had darkened the drawing room of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham makes his demonstration witty and compact-a lesson for playwrights if not for reckless wives...
...would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give Austrian Nazis less aid than he gave Franco. In such a situation it seemed eminently possible that Austrian Nazis might deliberately foment civil...
Nazi activity in Austria is a crime. In Vienna there was, however, a quiet understanding which served as a kind of life insurance for Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg: anti-Nazi laws would not be too strictly enforced so long as Nazis would not foment any more such plots as that which succeeded four years ago in the brutal murder of Chancellor Dollfuss. Last week Dr. Josef Tavs, the No. 2 Austrian Nazi, could not resist boasting to the correspondent of a Czechoslovak newspaper that he and Captain Josef Leopold, the No. 1 Austrian Nazi, were openly doing Nazi business from...