Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the Colonel will not be entirely without influence in the Army, even though he no longer belongs to it, was suggested by the choice of his successor. Jose Pedraza was also a sergeant when Sergeant Batista headed the non-commissioned officers' revolt which ended the rule of onetime President Gerardo Machado. Chief of Police of Havana and Military Governor of Havana Province as well, Colonel Pedraza was until last week Inspector General of the Cuban Army under Colonel Batista...
...Revolt by Spring? Nearest thing to a blueprint for revolution in the Reich was outlined at Paris last week by Otto Strasser whose famed brother Gregor, Deputy Leader of the Nazi Party as recently as 1932, was slain in the Fiihrer's "purge" of dissident Nazis two years later. German secret police charges that Otto Strasser instigated the recent Munich Nazi Beer Hall bombing (TIME, Nov.. 20) caused the Swiss Government to expel him last week. "I thought at first that my friends had been implicated . . . when I heard the false reports that Hess [Deputy Nazi Party -With...
...Paris-Soir. "I can tell you that Germany is ready for an anti-Hitler revolution but it will take time. Higher officers of the Army are too subservient to Hitler to take part. But the Nazis have many enemies among the colonels, majors and subordinate officers. For a revolt to be successful in the Reich, three things will be needed. First, Germans who still believe in Hitler must feel the horrors of war; second, the Reich must suffer its first military reverses, and, finally, privations in the country must become more acute. All these things can happen by the spring...
Berlin papers took no consistent, officially inspired line. Most grumbled about the work of foreigners. None admitted the possibility of internal unrest, of underground revolt.* None capitalized on the martyr angle...
...support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January 1938 he has been training for the presidency on a regime of "silence on important issues...