Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...January). Moslems were indignant. Berlin made fast & furious propaganda throughout the East, and the Viceroy had to yield. Though the war has kited shipping costs, India subsidized shipowners to continue the pilgrimage at prewar fares through last season. This time, the Viceroy is already coping with so much Indian unrest that whatever decision he makes is almost certain to bring unpleasant results...
...left to eager allies. China has been promised that she will be free and unified after the war. She has been guaranteed the abandonment of that greedy imperialistic policy by which the nations of the world have denied China control over her own resources, leaving her prone to internal unrest and invasion. By this action, Allied statesmen hope to work miracles in Chungking. They hope to give Chinese morale a tremendous shot in the arm which will stimulate offensive action against the enemy. They feel that China must be convinced that this is a war of a liberation where allies...
...Stuff. Trouble in Akron is nothing new. In 1902 the A.F. of L. started organizing, finally bashed its head against a united front of the manufacturers. Then came a long series of organizing drives, unrest, strikes, riots. In 1936 labor won its first big victory when the upstart United Rubber Workers (C.I.O.) forced giant Goodyear Tire & Rubber to rehire 70 discharged workers. The U.R.W. signed members in wholesale lots, now has practically all of Akron's 60,000 rubber workers. Many of them are husky, fearless men from the hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia with a background...
...Indian National Congress party, Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons that the situation in India "gives no occasion for undue despondency or alarm." But from the facts he gave, and others he ignored or distorted, it was clear that the British will neither admit to themselves how serious unrest is in India, nor will they yield to Gandhi...
...harbor Nazi spies, take Nazi money, and even spend Persian money to help the Germans from within. Last week the British seriously suspected that a looming famine in wheat-rich Persia was the work of wealthy, pro-Nazi Persians, who had cornered domestic grain and withheld it to foment unrest around the British and Russians...