Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British fear of French "instability" is not confined to economics. Many British officials suspect that France's desire for Western Union is merely an outgrowth of the "Third Force" movement. Edouard Herriot and Leon Blum, the leaders of France's drive for a European parliament, are also prophets of the Third Force-the middle man. The British fear that men like Herriot and Blum would try to turn Western Union from a militant anti-Communist federation into a bloc which would pursue the illusion of neutrality between Russia and the West...
...Factories. Like the movement he headed for over 20 years, Chaim Weizmann was born in one of the darkest corners of the Pale of Settlement, where the Russian Czars allowed the Jews to live. His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes. One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies. There and later in Pinsk, young Weizmann studied the Torah, got his first furtive glimpses of scientific books (forbidden...
Truman's speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was the slow movement in the spectacle. When he had finished, the carnival spirit returned in the roaring, foot-stamping applause from the bleachers, in the chimes from the Epiphany Church, in the ruffles and flourishes of the Marine Band. Just before the Inaugural Parade, the image flickered hysterically and there was a spell of "operating difficulties...
Most of the students at Yenching have also left the city. None are known to have taken part in the Communist movement, but it is believed that a sizeable minority may have been Communist sympathizers...
...Gurion's followers promptly retorted with a shot at Beigin: "Do you know," they asked, "why Beigin can't lose? He has the only Fascist movement in history that isn't anti-Semitic...