Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent abortive, Nazi-labeled Brazilian revolt is evidence that totalitarian propaganda sometimes backfires. Sometimes totalitarian economics backfire, too, and last week it was disclosed that the U. S. had nudged Germany out of No. 1 place as exporter to Brazil, that Brazil was starting to cut down her German trade...
Colonel Lawrence's promises were largely forgotten in post-War "realistic" diplomacy and the half-legendary hero-philosopher of the desert revolt retired to write, refused all honors and titles offered by "perfidious Albion," died in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...
...President Cárdenas, these assurances brought happiness. To neutral foreigners, the wholesale pledge of loyalty from previously doubtful supporters meant simply that the ill-timed, provoked revolt of Boss Cedillo, until recently political boss of San Luis Potosí State, had little chance of success, was already crumbling...
...Cedillistas was announced daily, but Federal airplanes and troops combed the rugged Huasteca hills in vain for the Chief himself. At week's end, Strongman Cedillo was so bold that by short-wave radio from his hideout he gave an interview to the U. S. He claimed his revolt was spreading...
...Irish revolutionary movement. Last week, a young Irishman named Louis Lynch D'Alton dramatized the change in revolutionary hearts in a bitter first novel that showed how two Irishmen reacted to the Easter Week fiasco. To Revolutionist Andrew Kilfoyle, who fought in it, the Rising was sickening, "a revolt of poets and schoolmasters," inept, ill-planned, melodramatic, futile. It convinced him that next time there should be no sentimentality, no proclamations, no self-deception and no pity. But to Manus Considine, who had intended to be a priest, the defeat of the Rising and the execution of its leaders...