Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These, in the main, are our regrets...
Berlin was not intimidated. As if carried forward by the momentum of resistance, power plant workers staged the first labor revolt against the Russians in Berlin since the occupation began. Trouble had started, before the elections, in the main administration offices of huge Bewag (Berliner Elektrizitätswerke A.G.). The Russians and their stooges, trying to destroy Bewag's predominantly non-Communist works council, had arrested six men and stationed police and plainclothesmen in the building. At a noisy, protest meeting, 3,000 Germans decided on a walkout unless their men were freed and the cops removed. Jumping...
...Franco seemed to be more firmly in the saddle than ever. Organized opposition had been largely obliterated. The most obvious, evidences that Spain is not a free country are the absence of criticism in the press, and the ubiquity of the army, which is the main prop of the regime. Spain has 350,000 to 400,000 well-fed, well-treated soldiers under arms, and if the need arose she could send a million trained men to battle, though with poor and insufficient weapons...
...main theme ... is 'the world's disorder and God's design.' May I begin by asking whether we must not deal with this theme, as a whole and in all its aspects, in reverse order? It is written, we should first seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness, so that all we need in relation to the world's disorder may be added unto us. Must we not take this order of topics seriously...
...main topics of discussion last night was the NSA election last spring under which Fisher came out top delegate...