Word: strife
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...recent recession in Massachusetts' economy has been accentuated by the strife in the textile industry. Lower costs in southern mills have forced many manufacturers to desert New England while others have attempted to economize by cutting wages. When management recently demanded a ten-cent across the board pay cut seven weeks ago, textile workers earning a base pay of $1.09 1/2 per hour, walked off the job throughout New England. Mill owners in Maine and New Hampshire, last week, decided not to press for a wage cut and the workers returned to the mills, but because the Massachusetts employers remain...
...Even though many of these gruesome promises are designed merely to discourage radical de-segregation, some Southerners may feel pride-bound to fulfill their rash avowals. Particularly in rural areas, where Negroes compete for jobs directly with whites; where illiteracy, bigotry, and violence combine in a sordid tangle, racist strife seems likely as integration approaches. Yet these social experts could point to Baltimore and Washington as examples of successful rapid integration. They cited numorous cases in labor and military de-segregation where threats of violence dissolved into racial harmony, once integration became a fact. These experts have presented convincing evidence...
...booby trap exploded. With an election approaching in Great Britain, the Conservative Party adopted a campaign tone that sounded as though it would give the Communists everything they wanted in the Far East. In Viet Nam the instability of the new U.S.-supported government and the resulting civil strife was a critical problem (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the Formosa Strait there lay the danger of possibly blundering onto the low road of appeasement...
...expansion of Russian power in the Western Pacific. Behind Churchill's back, Roosevelt offered Stalin participation in a Korean trusteeship from which Roosevelt proposed to exclude Britain; Stalin disdained the bait. Behind Chiang Kai-shek's back, Roosevelt gave Stalin his view of China's internal strife: "The fault lay more with the Kuomintang [Chiang's party] . . . than with the so-called Communists." Stalin did not argue. If this was Roosevelt's view, then world Communism would know how the U.S. stood when the Red Axis began to destroy Chiang with the concessions in Manchuria...
...implications for the future, the State Department's action is even more disturbing. The government has once again made political strife over foreign policy the order of the day. But each succeeding step away from the ideal of bi-partisanship is harder to retrace than the last, until finally the point of no return is reached. Publication of the documents over British protests, moreover, has unnecessarily angered out best friends in Europe for the sake of a domestic police advantage. And France and Germany have been aroused at a time when our efforts to weld both countries into the western...