Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rebel's Plan. In Helsinki there was open revolt in Finland's biggest party, the Social Democrats. Former leader Vaino Voionmaa challenged the iron rule of the Party's present boss, Finance Minister Vaino Tanner, admirer of Hitler and strong man of Finnish politics. Elder Statesman Voionmaa demanded peace with Russia on the best terms Russia would give, the resignation of the Government, the appointment of patient old (73) Juho Kusti Paasikivi as Premier. Paasikivi is one Finn who knows how to talk business with Stalin. Voionmaa was present when Paasikivi as Foreign Minister went to Moscow...
Gone from Soviet hymnology was French Rebel Eugene Pottier's theme...
...vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen. Whit man brought them oranges, lemons and sugar for lemonade; tobacco, and money...
...Popular Front Government which came to power in February 1936 did not dare keep Franco in Madrid, but assigned him a responsible outpost command, the Canary Islands. He soon began plotting with other generals; as his part of the July revolt, flew to Morocco to take charge of the rebel troops there. Franco expected the whole show to be over in a week or ten days, scarcely dreamed of becoming the top leader...
...having broadened and deepened his knowledge since he was a young rebel against "Federalist" historians, Charlie Beard was bound to do a mature book on his ideas about the Constitution and what it has meant to the U.S. And since his own mind has been a battleground, it is not surprising that the book, published under the Platonic title of The Republic, should also be cast in the form of a series of Platonic (or Socratic) dialogues. To his study high up on a Connecticut hillside overlooking the Housatonic valley, Charlie Beard has invited an imaginary Dr. and Mrs. Smyth...