Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rehash of those errors would now be a waste of incalculably valuable time. The crying need is, instead, for an immediately applicable solution of the problem--one which will free England's hands for the far greater battle against democracy's foes in Asia. As long as unrest and dissension continue in India, British troops and war materials will of necessity be diverted away from the vital battlefields of that area in order to combat a nation which is our natural ally...
...Castillo was not likely to lift his state of siege or change his ways unless the strongest pressures were put upon him. But already pressures were rising. Since his regime has chosen to renounce hemisphere cooperation, Argentina has faced fuel shortages, a mounting cost of living, labor unrest, an alarming budgetary outlook. Argentina's financial well-being today depends largely on the availability of foreign capital, which, with changing world conditions, might quickly flow elsewhere...
...study morale here at home and the effect of Nazi propaganda abroad, are a creation, and a much needed one, of this Department. Its findings are sent to the offices of MacLeish in Washington, where they are tabulated in an attempt to gauge the amount of dissent and unrest in the country as well as interpret the latest machinations of Goebbels and Company...
...world last week (from the Vatican State to Italy to Switzerland) leaked a report which Cardinal von Faulhaber recently sent Pope Pius XII. The Nazis' systematic war against Christianity, said the Cardinal, has contributed to Germany's present "spiritual unrest," to "manifestations against the regime" which the authorities call "machinations of Foreign Judeo-Communistic elements...
Some observers thought that Admiral Darlan had announced the agreement to give Germany an excuse to apply pressure to prevent it. Others felt that Vichy's hand was being forced by France's internal unrest. In either case, Vichy was nearing a showdown...