Word: diehardism
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...Argentine uprising (TIME, June 18) was planned as no mere harassment of the government, but an all-out revolution. As President Pedro Aramburu reconstructed it, the plot's recruits came from groups that supported ex-Strongman Juan Perón: labor leaders, diehard Peronista bullyboys, cashiered officials. Communists helped, and Perón sent funds. The uprising failed mainly because the government uncovered enough of it a fortnight ago to panic some hotheads into striking six days early. As a result, the twelve-hour revolt had only a fraction of its plotted impact; e.g., the planned wave of strikes...
...years ago, when the diehard "Suez rebels" on the Conservative backbenches objected violently to Britain's withdrawal from the Suez Canal zone, Eden himself had argued: "In the Middle East, as elsewhere, our defense arrangements must be based on consent and cooperation with the peoples concerned." He was criticized then by zealot imperialists for giving up British territory. When British evacuation of the Suez was followed by Lieut. General Glubb Pasha's expulsion from Jordan, and Britain's whole Middle East position was threatened, Eden decided to stand firm on Cyprus. Earl Attlee observed: "The government...
...even have time to brush our teeth!" Host Osawa lost his voice trying to shepherd his guests; all but mute, he finally bought a little brass whistle to signal moveon times. The week's entertainment cost Yoshio Osawa a cool $10,000. Last week, as the diehard Tigers prepared to return to the U.S. by a globe-girdling route, Charlie Caldwell announced that he and his fellow travelers had anted up more than $8,000 to set up "the Yoshio Osawa, 1925, Scholarship Fund." It will be used to send Japanese boys through Princeton. To generous Osawa the fund...
Lately the Mau Mau terror there has been reduced by police drives and by surrenders induced by government promises of good treatment. But a diehard gang of natives still hides out in the mountain forests, and Missionary Devitt decided to appeal to them directly. With little thought for his own safety, Devitt gathered eight surrendered terrorists and a Kikuyu clerk and went up the mountain, unarmed, with his portable sound equipment...
...before Tito and his Junoesque wife arrived at the Bois de Boulogne Station in their special blue and silver armor-plated train, all known anti-Titoist refugees in Paris were placed under surveillance. The most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep the peace. Along...