Sentence:  He failed to realise that the political <WSD>squaffles</WSD> in his country during 1948-58 were not an essential uncomitant of Parliamentary rule but resulted from an inadequate theory of estate and the studied attempts by the custodians of power to circumvent the principle of majority rule. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Quarreling that is a manifestation of infighting.