Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolt. The insurgents were pro-Russian, many were proCommunist. The underground Communist newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo attracted enough notice to be frequently quoted in the Swedish press. Railroad and police stations were attacked. Telephone and telegraph communications between Bulgaria and all other countries were cut off for seven days. The unrest last week was attributed to reports that King Boris had agreed to send 20 divisions to help Hitler against Russia...
...presented-and had approved by the Bolivian Congress-a draft of socio-economic proposals intended to raise living standards for Bolivians. The hopes that it provoked among the Indians added fuel to the flames of their dissatisfaction. Nazi agents, working on susceptible labor leaders, added their touch to the unrest. At the same time the Nazis urged the Government to take a firm attitude...
...Gestapo's Himmler was extending his control to the army. An official Berlin announcement seemed to bolster this interpretation: By order of Hitler, Gestapo district Gauleiters in Germany were designated defense commissioners, responsible for military measures within their areas-which may have been only an indication of growing unrest in Germany. London even revived the report, also current in the U.S., that some of the army Prussians were deliberately "isolating" Hitler, against the day when complete disaster in Russia might enable them to overthrow the Fuhrer and arrange a militarists' peace...
...Athens students demonstrated jubilantly, and there was so much popular unrest in Crete that the Nazi conquerors got out their machine guns...
...Rajagopalachariar's meeting Mr. Gandhi. . . . The very idea of victory while holding India on a leash must be agreeable to the die-hards and Blimps who would love to indulge in reminiscences about India being easily controlled with the small finger of the left hand. . . . All the unrest we have is not of Congress' making. . . . The Government feel . . . that they are going to make a success of their job by a policy of double-distilled noncooperation from the British side...