Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cubist Revolution of 1911." But peering down from his scaffold, Siqueiros observed that Latin American artists were doing nothing for the war, that they had lost touch with the masses, that Latin American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto exhorting Latin America's painters to back the attack. Last January the aroused artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia...
Three weeks ago, at the Inter-American Students Conference in Santiago, Chile, the Argentine students had repudiated the Ramirez regime, called for a break with Germany. Last week they went on strike against the Government's dismissal of university professors who had signed a Pan-American solidarity manifesto. The movement rapidly spread to all but one of Argentina's six universities, included 80% of the nation's students. They ran Ramirez' policemen ragged...
...German generals and more than 100 other Wehrmacht officers, mostly captured at Stalingrad, had formed a German Officers' Union; that General of Artillery Walther von Seidlitz had been elected its president. Just as the Soviet Union Government had indirectly sponsored the parent. National Free Germany Committee and its manifesto proposing a democratic, capitalistic postwar Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), so the Soviet Union Government last week sponsored the Officers' Union and its declaration. That declaration, printed in Pravda and broadcast from Moscow, told Wehrmacht leaders, in effect, how they might ditch Hitler, set up a generals' government...
...what terms might Russia be willing to make peace with a post-Hitler Germany? Precise terms have been laid down by the National Committee of Free Germany in Moscow-although Russia has not officially associated herself with them. Because of its potential significance, the Committee's manifesto is herewith reprinted, with only nonessential deletions for space...
...Germans are invited to fight, not for our sakes, but for their own. . . . This is political blitz." Secondly, it may be a political maneuver, Russia's latest attempt to get the real second front it wants in Europe. The Russians may hope that the German Committee and its manifesto, combined with the Red Army's summer advance, will convince U.S. and British leaders that they had better get to Berlin fast, ahead of the Red Army. Thirdly, the move may be Russia's method of showing its displeasure at the way Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt have...