Word: rebellions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Benito Mussolini was not bluffing. He sympathized wholeheartedly with young Mr. Eden's idealistic point of view. Every wise Briton was aware that Italian conquest of Ethiopia, now at hand, might easily mean the end of British domination in the Mediterranean and the beginning of a serious rebellion in Egypt. But for the time being there was nothing to do about...
...Lawrence Legend" which is ascribed almost entirely to the fertile mind of Lowell Thomas and which grew to such proportions that as late as 1931 a tourist in Spanish Morocco was arrested because his second name was Lawrence and the authorities were afraid that he would incite a rebellion of the natives...
Last week Premier Azaña ordered José jailed for prosecution on charges of inciting armed rebellion. The Phalanx was outlawed, all its clubhouses closed and many of its leaders locked up. The police, given this official support, went merrily into the streets and began cracking Rightist and Leftist skulls without fear or favor...
Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
...with old anecdotes and mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...