Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BONN, Germany, Sept. 29--West German army officers are in a state of virtual revolt against Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss because of the way he summarily sacked a general, senior officers said today...
Perhaps this was all Khrushchev (or Tito) had in mind at this point, knowing the offer would be rejected. But more intriguing was what the proposal indicated about the Tito-Khrushchev relationship. Since the Hungarian revolt, Moscow seems so unsure of how to handle the ferment in its Eastern European empire that it has publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance...
...Hungarian delegates all spread the same line concerning the revolt. They claimed that Hungary had been a land of peace and happiness before the revolt, but that spies were sent in from the West as instigators and that "weapons of murder" were shipped in by balloons...
...pursuing this subject in a spirit of cold war"; he argued that "we do not condemn the doer but the deed." And the reason the subject was introduced again was that Puppet Premier Janos Kadar has kept none of the glib promises he made after Soviet tanks crushed the revolt last November. Soviet troops have not been withdrawn; nor has the promise of no reprisals been honored. From incontrovertible Hungarian Communist sources-their radios and newspapers-Lodge submitted the names of 1,768 Hungarians punished by the regime, including 23 executions and 51 death sentences...
...included two navy captains and the commandant of the maritime police. The army colonel in charge of mop-up operations was wounded. Three rebel navy officers, 13 enlisted men and three maritime police were captured and flown to Havana to face a rough round of questioning on how the revolt got started. Batista's troops began a house-to-house search for a reported 2,000 guns distributed to civilians from the arsenal...