Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present trouble in China is not just a struggle between two political parties for power. The Communist movement in my country is not a movement for local self-government. . . . Nor is it a movement for peaceful agrarian reform, for their method of the liquidation of the landlords, including very small landholders, has always been confiscation and expropriation by force. ... It is the challenge of a minority party with an independent army against the authority of the established Government in the hope of gaining political control of the country...
...opposition within Yugoslavia (which Tito has ruthlessly suppressed): "We are not against any opposition movement which desires to assist in the reconstruction of the country." But, added Tito indignantly, the present opposition actually "seeks to profit by the mistakes we make." He made a grim prophecy: "I know [the opposition] will never become stronger, only weaker...
...When a woman combs her hair," said Rodin, "the movement of the stars can be traced in her gestures." Before he died in 1917, Rodin had traced thousands of such starry motions...
Adressed to Miss Elsi Haus, the Unitarian Committee's representative in Vienna, a group of Czech students wrote, "Your action brings real relief to those who need it most: survivors of concentration camps, members of the resistance movement and the politically persecuted...
...November elections pose an unpleasant question for the American Liberal--how to cast his vote where it will do the least harm to the Progressive movement. Republican campaign hoopla features undisguised "Back to Normalcy"; while the Democratic administration, which for 12 years carried the battle flag of Liberalism, is generaled by leaders whose political philosophy is almost indistinguishable from "Silent Cal" Republicanism. Neither party offers a constructive, integrated program for social or economic progress; and the strategy of both emphasizes catchy slogans at the expense of troublesome ideology...