Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French National Assembly. Thirty Gaullist Deputies and five Senators who bolted R.P.F. in protest against its "negative and sterile attitude" towards Premier Antoine Pinay (TIME, July 14) formed something called the Independent Group for Republican and Social Action. Edmond Barrachin, the fast-talking Parisian columnist who led the revolt, was elected president. De Gaulle thereupon serenely announced that the defectors had not quit; they had been fired for refusing to obey orders...
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...General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) is now organized on the lines of a civilian militia, ready to fight any anti-Peron uprising. Since 1946, Peron has increased his police fivefold; Buenos Aires alone now has more than 35,000 cops. Since last September's abortive army revolt, Peron has purged the army of more than 1,000 suspected officers...
...employee board plans no changes in the prosperous paper. Its boss will continue to be Roger H. Ferger, publisher and now also president of the new corporation. Even the Enquirer's support of Senator Taft for the Republican nomination will continue. "This wasn't a revolt of employees," explained Ratliff. "It was a movement to preserve a famous independent newspaper...
...understand what was happening to the world. "I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war," she wrote. "Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged...