Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German Women Unpopular...
Meanwhile, not only had Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey been emboldened (with sardonic Russia's encouragement, too) to stand off the Axis, but the war itself, the Germans' war, was increasingly unpopular in Italy. Last week's war budget of 14,000,000,000 lire with 700,000,000 additional for home relief, is not an immense sum in real money (total: $735,000,000). But it is a lot to a poor country where a soldier's wife gets only 1.20 lire (five cents) per day allowance and bread costs 1.50 lire a pound. General Papagos...
...Axis, whose planes again bombed Alexandria, operating base of the British Mediterranean Fleet. Since Egypt has been for years a more or less willing British puppet, it could be assumed that Premier Sirry was keeping his fingers crossed in agreement with London, but this policy is increasingly unpopular among the young Egyptian malcontents of Cairo. Last week they were in angry mood, kept calling on King and Premier for "Vengeance and Italian blood...
...ruling should not be taken to mean that Harvard University intends in the future to clamp down on minority views--to repress unpopular causes in the Yard. Little basis for such accusations may be found in the records of the Dean's Office. Harvard's Young Communist League, for instance, has not in the past been prevented from distributing its flyers, although because it fears discrimination, it has refused to register at University Hall. Under the new regulations, such outlaw groups will still be liable to suppression. But Dean von Stade assures us this will not be the case. Official...
...hold isolationist views, say, or to criticise domestic policy and national defense, is guaranteed him "by our ordinary American doctrine of civil liberty." Professors "are certainly at full liberty to think and to talk as they please upon any subject which interests them, whether it be popular or unpopular...