Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since his class in the Student Training Corps was still in College when World War I ended, Professor Allport is in a position to compare those years with our times. He sees one big difference: after the first war the feeling of unrest and scapegoating was directed at many targets--such "symbolic villains" as the IWW, byphenated Americans, and the Bolsheviks. Because of this there was no great harm, since enmities were diffuse and scattered. Today, though, he sees the unrest and scapegoating focused on one target--Communism, and finds it a warlike and ominous attitude...
Over southern Luzon stands a plume of ashy smoke (see cut). Mt. Mayon in the Philippines has again blown its graceful top. Most other recent seismic unrest (earthquakes and volcanoes) has also hit the shores of the Pacific: Peru, the Aleutians, Japan. Hasty guessers have therefore concluded that a wave of seismic shakes is burrowing molelike, and counterclockwise, around the Pacific. Having passed the Philippines, quivers and brimstone ought to strike the East Indies next, then the New Guinea region, then New Zealand, and back to Chile and Peru...
...Brussels' conservative Rue d'Ecosse. He is a dreamer who reads little, belongs to no church, no political party. The tables and cupboards in his studio are cluttered with seven human skulls, and the walls are banked with huge, infinitely complicated paintings. (A recent one, called Unrest in the City, includes some 1,200 figures.) Says he: "I work patiently and minutely like the Flemish primitives, Van Eyck and Memling." He paints on plywood made especially for him by a Belgian manufacturer of matchboxes...
...Dutch were reluctant to admit that native unrest has been stirring for years. Some Hollanders were inclined to blame it all on the Japs. Said Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, The Netherlands' wartime Premier in Exile: "We are in danger of losing the war." Others blamed it all on a Jap puppet. Said an Amsterdam cigar-store proprietor last week: "This fellow Soekarno is just a crook and a collaborator who is certainly going to turn Communist within the next five years. We have killed our own quisling Mussert in Holland-we ought to shoot Soekarho...
...carefully avoided anything that might set Washington's teeth on edge. In Mexico, then clearinghouse for Soviet diplomacy in Latin America, gifted, affable Ambassador Constantine Oumansky charmed Mexicans with his hothouse Spanish, his vodka and caviar. Local Commies, who were not encouraged to frequent the Embassy, decried labor unrest, concentrated their fire upon the Nazis. Most Latin regimes that were smiled upon by Washington enjoyed Commie backing for the duration...