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...Among dozens of proposals: measures to mete out life imprisonment, even death to those who foment strikes in defense industries. Only bill that has a chance of being acted upon: the Vinson Bill, which allows the Mediation Board to freeze the status of a plant, pending the Board's decision on a dispute provides for a 30-day "cooling off" period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hip & Thigh | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...home, Vichy was worried about the formation of a volunteer French legion to fight Russia, headed by Eugène Deloncle, leader of the prewar, monarchist Cagoulards ("hooded men"-TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Such a force might be useful to the Nazis if they wished to foment an anti-Pétain revolution. Last week Vichy's Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan forbade the legion to bear arms until it had crossed France's borders en route to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No Other Choice? | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Guerrilla units, mounted and foot, must be formed, diversionist groups must be organized to combat enemy troops, to foment guerrilla warfare everywhere, to blow up bridges and roads, damage telephone and telegraph lines and to set fire to forests, stores and transports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Second Wind, Third Week | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Part of the pact by which Stalin has assured his safety-for the time being-is that the Communist Party in America shall be used to foment strikes and trouble when Hitler gives the word. ... A few armed Nazi agents slipped into a crew of strikebreakers and a few Red agitators among the strikers . . . could produce an incident that might have grave national importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Enemy on U.S. Nerves | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...last week was a 1,000-page Dies Committee report on Communism in the U. S. It outlined the program of the Communist Party, named names, charged the Reds with plotting to disrupt defense industries, destroy the morale of the armed forces of the U. S., discourage enlistments, foment civil war. Popping with ideas, Dies, in Texas, had telegraphed the President for a conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Before Departure | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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