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Former history professor Gingrich misstates some facts about the 20th century. The Great Depression did not give rise to Nazism or Japanese militarism. It was World War I and its aftermath that set the stage for both Mussolini's march on Rome and Hitler's attempted putsch in Munich. By the time of the Depression, in 1929, the fascists had been in power for years, and the Nazis had been growing in strength for most of the decade. Furthermore, Gingrich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R.'s New Deal. Smoot...
...former history professor Newt Gingrich misstates some facts about the 20th century [March 23]. The Great Depression did not give rise to Nazism or Japanese militarism. It was World War I and its aftermath that set the stage for both Mussolini's march on Rome and Hitler's attempted putsch in Munich. By the time of the Depression, in 1929, the fascists had been in power for years, and the Nazis had been growing in strength for most of the decade. Furthermore, Gingrich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R...
...name the National Council for Democracy and Development. Conté, who was buried on Friday, was a heavy smoker and a diabetic, and had groomed no successor. The Parliament's speaker Aboubacar Sompare - who by law should have stepped in as leader-urged soldiers not directly involved in the putsch to disown Camara. But Guinea's 10 million people and its rank and file soldiers appeared to have little stomach for a fight they would very likely lose. (Read TIME's Top 10 News Stories of the Year...
...everyone feels the same. Speaker of the Senate Bogdan Borusewicz calls the takeover a "classic Latin-style military putsch" and says the trial may be Poland's last chance for justice. "Jaruzelski defended the communist system, not Poland," Borusewicz says. "He defended the communist dictatorship, not the state." Marek Krasko, a Warsaw accountant, remembers that as a 13-year-old, he welcomed martial law--because the schools were closed--until he saw his grandmother in tears at the prospect of civil war. "Martial law was a hard blow for Solidarity, and it pushed the country back," he says...
...impose martial law, while 45% condemn the decision. Some former Solidarity leaders, such as current Speaker of the Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, are not as forgiving of Jaruzelski as others have been. "The trial is an act of justice," Borusewicz said. "The martial law was a classic Latin-style military putsch. Jaruzelski defended the communist system, not Poland. He defended the communist dictatorship, not the state...