Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program and fulfill it." Unless sacrifices were made, he implied, the win ter's "fateful deadline" might well bring starvation, political unrest and violence. He did not say so, but he was talking mostly to his own Government...
Grave Repercussions. This was big news far beyond Britain. In Europe, seething with social unrest and social politics, it might have grave repercussions. If Britain goes far left, it might, as, Winston Churchill had warned, bowl over Europe's precarious political balances "like nine pins" and precipitate the Continent into new unrest...
There is no precedent in modern Japanese history for direct personal rule by the Emperor. Parliament empowered Hirohito to rule with dictatorial powers last month. What drove Japanese leaders to take this step is not certain. It may be that there is agitation in Japan-unrest and longing for peace. To unite the people for a resistance at home, it may have been necessary to invoke the Emperor's personal prestige...
...sullen summer heat, strikes smouldered into flame like scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
...flood tide of Europe's social unrest was lapping over into The Nether lands. But Queen Wilhelmina had her finger in the dike. Her new Government for a country radically changed as a result of war and German occupation was not yet completed. But into it she had invited two leaders of the new political forces -Willem Schermerhorn, former Resistance leader, who had had time to dream up new ideas for The Netherlands while he was a Nazi prisoner, and Willem Drees, Social Democrat and trade union leader...