Word: fomenter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Communist Darcy drew even louder cheers by brashly revealing that, after U. S. dock workers' contracts with their employers expire Sept. 20, the U. S. Communist Party expects to foment "strikes of unprecedented magnitude." Asserting that California Communist stevedores enjoy cordial relations with the Communist stevedores of The Netherlands and Australia. Mr. Darcy wisely observed: "The international contacts of the working class acquire special significance in connection with the danger of an imperialist war. It is essential to win great influence among the sailors and port workers engaged in loading and transporting military supplies." In their speeches Reds Browder...
...openly at Democratic governments since the Russian Revolution of 1917. the Comintern or World Union of Communist Parties executed in Moscow last week a sudden about-face. Hitherto the duty outside Russia of every Communist has been to cripple his country's war-time forces and if possible foment a revolution while fighting men are at the front. Joseph Stalin created a sensation this spring by a statement to French Premier Laval which seemed to mean that French Communists should support the French Army, an unprecedented heresy from the Old Bolshevik point of view (TIME, May 27). This heresy...
...Nazi hooligans having been sent from Germany to foment opposition to II Duce in Italy's German-speaking Tirol and to beat up Fascist sympathizers, the Dictator quietly moved up several Italian battalions which arrived in the night, doffed uniforms, put on civilian clothes and next day gave the German hooligans the beating of their lives while Italian police pretended to marvel at the frequency of brawls and fist fights. As the Nazis fled to Nazidom, the regiment resumed uniforms, the Tirol resumed its calm and in Rome spokesmen for II Duce scoffed politely at "those fantastic rumors from...
Soviet efforts abroad to create an impression that Dictator Joseph Stalin no longer tries to foment the World Revolution of the World Proletariat were again upset in Moscow last week by the Communist Party's official Propaganda Chief, candid if clumsy Comrade Alexei Ivanovich Stetsky...
...collapse of Christian society, the Elders plan to: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration of gold in the hands of the Jews...