Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their landlords without pay, sometimes as much as five days a week. It agreed to enforce a longstanding, long-flouted law requiring landlords and mine owners to support elementary schools. The Government also threatened to punish "agitators"-which suggested that the proposed reforms were made to quiet rural unrest...
...Germany of those crucial years was a cauldron of unrest both political and social, dominated by mob tensions and violence...
...Holland, as in Belgium, political unrest began in the stomach. The Government organ, Voice of The Netherlands, reported: in Nazi-held Holland. 4,500,000 persons now get daily food rations of 450 to 650 calories-or, roughly, "one-third of what the human body needs to keep alive while doing nothing, one-fifth of what it needs while exerting itself. . . . This is plain famine-stark, inescapable. ... It just means death. It kills...
Waiting to take political advantage of this general despair was a dynamic party with a plan for ending it. The Communist Party's demonstrations had touched off the Belgian unrest which British intervention prevented from reaching crisis proportions last fall. The Communist Party had had a determined hand in continuing to give the social discontent a political form and drive. The one thing that gave pause to the recalcitrant Socialists last week was the fear that if they withdrew from the Government, Communists might increase their strength...
...perhaps the most stubborn fact of all was distrust. If the western Allies distrusted the aims of Russia, few could blame Marshal Stalin if he distrusted the aims of the western Allies. Europe was seething with social unrest. As the result of the war, immense political and social dislocations had taken place. Time & again Russia had demonstrated that she had a program, the will and the means to deal with this unrest. But neither Britain...