Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Figl: "Efforts [by the Communists] during the last two weeks to foment strikes and unrest among the workers ... [resulted] in a very sad collapse...
...could express surprise over the convention-end revelation that the Truman alternative alone could come near to satisfying ADA. What did crop into the open without warning was the overwhelming general unrest about the Administration drift toward a conservative orientation. Two viewpoints concerning strategy clashed: one holding that explicit platform-wise recognition of Truman's shortness on liberalism would gather votes for Wallace, another insisting that a whitewash inevitably spelled further Presidential slaps to the face of the Left. The issue was fought out in sessions of the political policy drafting committee. Careerist Democrats Paul Porter (ex-OPA chief...
...other day a keen U.S. observer, back from a year in Italy, was warning of the danger of a Marxist political victory there. A listener asked: "But when the Marshall Plan gets going, won't rising living standards greatly reduce the unrest?" The observer replied: "Not necessarily. The discrepancy between the rich and the poor will still be there, and that is what counts...
...Today the signs of the new tyranny that seeks world domination are unmistakable. Communism is no less a tyranny than Nazism. It aims at world conquest. It hopes to effect its purpose by force. Its patterns of procedure are similar, but they go further. They seek to create unrest in all quarters of the globe and, by devious underground and underhand methods, to penetrate and undermine the established social systems of many lands...
...Ruhr tension would be eased. But what about the other Western Germans, plenty of whom were having thin scrabbling (see cut)? Was divvying up the rations just another way of divvying discontent? In London, Ernie Bevin sent an urgent personal note to George Marshall warning that German hunger and unrest would likely grow worse. And there were other tensions...