Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speeches indicated that revolution is in progress in real estate. N. A. B. O. M. nabobs pondered these signs of unrest...
First indication that the Government had decided to clean out Nazi agitators, Communist revolutionaries, fomenters of continental unrest and political troublemakers in general came when Secretary of Interior Ignacio Garcia Téllez called a meeting of Mexican publishers and editors to inform them that Mexico's foreign policy was strictly pro-Allies, pro-U. S. To emphasize publicly that his sympathies were with the democracies, President General Lázaro Cardenas sent a telegram to France's President Albert Lebrun expressing the "painful impression" created by the Italian declaration...
...Labor unrest in Norway...
...They will strip you of trade first. . . . Britain has been your best customer. Conquered, she will be your customer no longer. . . . Without markets your armaments and welfare programs will destroy you ... for you cannot find these billions as your national income declines. Your unemployment will mount. Your social unrest will mount. You will be ready for propaganda and sabotage. . . . We are already destroying your own confidence in your democratic system. You cannot make up your minds...
...English he remarks: "England will soon have to open old people's homes for her sons. She desexes her people with sport and obsessive ideas: were not other countries keeping her in perpetual unrest, she would in a couple of generations be converted to pederasty. . . ." Most of all he deplores what he sees in Ingeborg Torsen, a fine young woman who, thanks to her feminist education, has become a sexual derelict, disconsolately out for what she can get. She manages inadvertently to cause a murder; she is bound, for a while, to a dismal little actor who lives...