Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...degree lower than it had enjoyed for many months. Whatever Mr. Hull's intention, his little note proved that: 1) all Mexico's political factions are united on oil; 2) Cárdenas' grip on the country is still strong. Mexico's political and economic unrest is heightened by the fact that after nearly six years of revolutionary social experimentation Lázaro Cárdenas must let go. On July 7, according to the Constitution, Mexico must elect a new President. And there is no man like Cárdenas to succeed...
...refugees, help to spread his ideas. Though General Amaro's followers are few, his nuisance value is great. Among rumors floating around Mexico last week was one that backers of Cardenas would persuade him to "oppress" General Amaro, thereby driving him to insurrection. If a "state of unrest" exists at election time, the election can be postponed...
...there were trouble in Palestine, there would be repercussions in Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India," continued the Secretary. "... I must tell the House that we have had the sternest warnings in recent weeks that, despite appearances in Palestine, there was beneath the surface growing unrest in Arab villages and growing suspicion that the British Government was not sincere in its professions that it would protect Arab cultivators, peasants and laborers." At the end Secretary MacDonald received a rousing ovation, and a motion of nonconfidence, the first raised against the Government since the war began, was defeated...
...warring nations. Almost daily the casualties of Scandinavian shipping mounted until the score stood at 92 merchantmen sunk, 753 seamen killed-all by the Nazis. In the East the Red Army moved ever nearer to Swedish soil and Finland's calls for aid caused serious internal unrest. In the West the Allied Powers actively questioned Scandinavia's interpretation of neutrality. "It is certainly darkening up here," observed the Stockholm Tidningen...
...crescent of islands that forms the Leeward and Windward groups, down through Barbados (whose 1,163 people to the square mile make up the densest agricultural population in the Western Hemisphere) to Tobago and Trinidad (which imports four-fifths of its food). Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa, bananas...