Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
...India has become politically independent, and there are great waves of unrest and portents of early struggles for independence in many parts of Africa. A missionary movement which is basically controlled by personnel from despised European powers (and belonging to the white race) is viewed with growing suspicion...
Despite such political and ideological unrest, Nehru insists: "People do not believe in 'isms.' They believe in their own individual life . . . India is fundamentally stable because its peasants are better off than before. Industrial workers are, in some cases, a little better off and in some cases a little worse off. But, in any case, not discontented. But the middle class is much worse off and that is the danger to our stability...
...price of export coal. But when he came to inland coal, he was sure and stern: ". . . The price of coal would have to be increased 25% ... We will under no circumstances adopt this measure. I say this explicitly in the name of the federal government, so that any unrest in the German people will be stopped at once...
East Asia's unrest, which World War II accentuated, would have developed even in the absence of Communism, he said, although the Communists have stepped into supply leadership...