Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference was set at Buenos Aires so that Dr. Saavedra would become its president. More reluctantly Mr. Hull allowed the whole conference to be postponed for several months in order not to interfere with Dr. Saavedra's recent appearances at Geneva, and in diplomatic negotiations over the Spanish revolt. Mr. Hull, on the eve of his arrival in Buenos Aires, announced that Dr. Saavedra's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Chaco War was "most worthily bestowed in recognition of Mr. Saavedra Lamas's outstanding service to peace not only in recent...
...people. If they once come to believe that Dayang Dayang or her Filipino friends conspired to poison him, Moros from Borneo, Celebes and Java can be expected to come to the aid of their brothers in the Sulu Archipelago. Then the day of the Moros' inevitable revolt against the masters they despise will be at hand, a struggle which the Moros, outnumbered and unarmed, cannot win, but in which they as born fighting men will doubtless take heavy toll of cocky Christian Filipinos...
...Honor but only acted in concert with two veterans' organizations, and that anyhow the still-living French officers of Salengro's regiment all say today in Paris that he was a deserter, and they ought to know. Friends retorted that, in Germany, Prisoner Salengro organized an attempted revolt of 40 other French prisoners and for this got two years in one of the Fatherland's jails, which in France should be in his favor.* Enemies kept screaming that Salengro must be investigated by a Court of Honor but in the Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago, after...
...situation. The fact that in any civil conflict the recognized government has always been free to receive the implements of self-defense from abroad has been disregarded by the "neutral" countries on the grounds that Madrid was Lestist. It is convenient to forget that at the beginning of the revolt the Spanish government was a liberal republic, which swung toward Communism only under the tragic necessity of self-defense. President Azana, who still refuses to flee the burning house, is no more Marxist than Herbert Hoover or Stanley Baldwin, and far less so than Leon Blum. It is significant that...
...Colonial Secretary Ormsby-Gore and his department: "The Palestine Government has chosen to permit the threat of outbreak and violence to remain poised over the heads of Palestine Jewry. With more than 20,000 British troops at its disposal in Palestine, it has treated with the leaders of the revolt, failed to disarm the Arab gangs, failed to establish a water-tight system of frontier-control...