Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek Rebel General markos Vafiades, through his own Politburo, last week made the following charge over the clandestine "Free Greece Radio...
Last Sunday, at dawn, revolt exploded in Peru's chief port city of Callao. It was the restless country's second uprising in less than three months. Last time (TIME, July 19) it had been the army; now it was the navy. Rebel sailors and officers seized five warships, locked up or shot their commanders, sent landing parties ashore under cover of a ragged bombardment. Shore-based sailors quickly took over the Naval Academy and the naval armory, moved on to occupy an army barracks and the ancient, star-shaped fortress, Real Felipe...
...night of bloody fighting, loyal army troops in tanks and armored cars beat off the landing parties, finally reduced the rebel strongholds. The dead and wounded were carted off in truckloads. Harried by army bombers, the rebel warships set out to sea, finally returned and surrendered. Eight miles away in Lima, meanwhile, armed civilians had seized the telephone exchange, had tried to booby-trap it before being driven...
...combat the rebels who are chasing him, Thakin Nu has an armed force of some 12,000 men, three Spitfires and two pilots (whom the rebels tried to assassinate last week). Fortunately for the outnumbered government forces, personal animosities and the wide gap in principles separating the rebel factions have so far prevented any lasting military mergers among them. Each group is forming its own island of resistance, from which it strikes in sporadic attacks...
...Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor, an idealist rebel. She came from a fine old colonial family. When she was 14, she demanded that her name be taken off the rolls of the Presbyterian Church in Bridgeton, N.J., because she did not think it fair for some people to be destined for hell and others for heaven. She was, successively, a suffragette, Prohibitionist, Ethical Culturist, Single Taxer, a partisan of William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair. When the Russian Revolution came along, she found the spiritual home for which she had searched so long...