Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would like to take President-elect Lescot's place in Washington, leaving the new President to cope with Haiti's growing unrest alone...
...Gandhi said that "riots would be a welcome relief if that is the price we must pay for freedom," and since then he has become even more uncompromising. If the Mahatma himself should decide to make a speech, and if he should be arrested, India's subsurface unrest would almost certainly boil over...
...read the true picture of Italy last week. Correspondents cabled that news of British victories in Egypt was withheld in Italy, that prices of necessities had almost doubled, that sometimes housewives "get impatient" waiting in queues for rations of charcoal and olive oil. But on the growing social unrest in Italy they could only quote the papers...
...This unrest, it seemed clear from the tone of the press, was displayed chiefly by the well-to-do and the fairly well-to-do, those elements which have always been, at best, lukewarm supporters of Fascism. They are the elements which have been most loyal to King Vittorio Emanuele,who at the time of the Ethiopian crisis was supposed to have said: "If Italy wins, I will be Emperor of Ethiopia but if Italy loses, I will be King of Italy." He may have been thinking along the same lines last week. There were rumors that Crown Prince Umberto...
Sorrows of the Vanquished. Last week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler summoned a conference of staff officers from Germany's armies of occupation to consider measures for dealing with unrest...