Word: fomenters
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...Every few months Dictator Stalin is rumored to have all but abandoned the Communist struggle to foment from Moscow revolution in other lands. Recently the offices near the Kremlin of the Comintern or official Moscow bureau for fomenting the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" were closed, and not until last week did Moscow correspondents rediscover the Comintern occupying magnificent new quarters overlooking Moscow on the Lenin Hills. Divided into three five-story buildings connected by three-story sections, the colossal new quarters for fomenting World Revolution comprise just over 1,000 rooms...
...impoverished tenants. For those who were surprised that, in view of the Philippines' recent acute agrarian troubles, no more was earmarked for this purpose, President Quezon had a ready answer: if he promised to buy estates wherever agrarian trouble started, landowners who were eager to sell out would foment trouble to encourage sales...
...Dominion House of Commons resoundingly cheered Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe, who has pledged on behalf of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, a lifelong Liberal, that the "entire resources" of the Dominion Government, including the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police, will be used to get any persons who foment a sit-down in Canada...
...indignation spreading in ever-widening ripples from Addis Ababa has generated native "passive resistance" on a large scale, with food now growing scarce in Italian garrison towns as Ethiopians stubbornly refuse to sell. Agents of the British Secret Service are doing all they can in Ethiopia to further and foment such native discontent, according to the French Secret Service reports, and Ethiopians are being incited to assassinate Italians...
Since the Dictator is the most prominent member of the Moscow International devoted to fomenting the World Revolution, it is doubtful in a strictly legal sense whether Comrade Stalin has a right to permit himself to stay in Russia under the pledges given Washington, but neither the Dictator nor the President is a legal stickler. What is certain is that no great Red could, under the treaty pledges Moscow has given, stay abroad and foment Revolution if he were not officially an outcast from Russia...