Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revolt, The Intercollegiate Socialist Review" has recently appeared here. The magazine is published monthly by The Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy. The sheet is run by a number of undergraduate editors from the various colleges throughout the country. Harvard's representative on the board is J. C. Hall...
...Manchuria she violated either the League Covenant, the Kellogg Pact, or the Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty. Japan denies that Manchuria is an integral part of China. Japan denies that her army acted except in self defense. Once again Japan makes the excuse that she merely protected a revolt-started by Manchurian nationalists. Japan will neither accept censure from the League nor act on the Lytton Commission's suggestions which "appear also to be too refined and intricate, and not adaptable to the realities of the Far East...
...From a portrait by Eric Kennington. Reproduced from the limited edition of Revolt in the Desert published in London by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. Courtesy of Duttons...
...England is all wrong. Though a brilliant, omnivorous student with an enormous and accurate memory, though he won Oxford's highest scholastic honor (a fellowship at All Souls), scholars would not call him a scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during the Peace Conference at Paris; the introduction was written in an airplane flying from Paris to Cairo. At Reading railway station, the following December, the two-thirds-finished MS was stolen. He set to and rewrote the whole thing in three months? 34,000 words...
...Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine of army life in Cairo. Lawrence cast an envious eye at the Arab revolt just getting under way across the Red Sea. He made a general nuisance of himself till he got ten days' leave. He headed straight for Feisal's army, was received by Feisal with the question: "And do you like our place here in Wadi Safra?" Said Lawrence: "Well...