Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The memory of a bloodily crushed strike eight months ago raised an uproar last week in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies. The strike was that of Tin King Simon I. Patino's miners (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942); the uproar came when leaders of Bolivia's extremist parties accused...
Many realists among Republican exiles felt certain that the time was far from ripe for practical action. London and Washington still stood on good diplomatic terms with Madrid. Unless they were ready to add intervention in Spain to their other problems, there was little they could yet do to bring...
Cannibal War. In 1835 Don Carlos led a Spanish revolt, and Europe's powers were soon eager to take a hand. Under "the sacred principle" of nonintervention, the French soon intervened. (Nonintervention, said Talleyrand, is "a metaphysical and political term meaning about the same as intervention.") Chief of staff...
... In Italian drama and opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who...
A Frustrated Mission. In Algiers General de Gaulle contemplated the news from London: Prime Minister Winston Churchill's statement that Allied intervention on behalf of General Giraud "was made on military grounds,'' implied no Anglo-American control over "the political organization." He also contemplated the fact that...