Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city and the sun was shining brightly on the following day. " Chancellor" Hitler and " Commander-in-Chief" von Ludendorff were within the War Office when the loyal Bavarian Reichswehr, commanded by the " disloyal" (to Berlin) General von Lossow, stormed the building, and after a short battle the "beer hall revolt" was crushed...
...Dictator von Kahr and General von Lossow were entirely out of sympathy with the movement and declared that their agreement with the Hitler move was forced by duress. After leaving the Bürgerbrau Keller, Dr. von Kahr had conferred with General von Lossow and they decided to suppress the revolt with the faithful Reichswehr (defense force). Ex-Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht, head of the Wittelsbach dynasty, emphatically repudiated the revolutionary movement...
...with undisguised alarm, despite subsequent contrary statements. President Ebert issued an appeal to the nation, an emergency Cabinet meeting was held, troops were ordered out by General von Seeckt, Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr. Hardly had this been done when the news was flashed from Munich that the revolt had been crushed...
...lord of the German war machine clothed him in the trappings of royalty, and as a result every peasant has marked his fall. To become guilty of treason is in itself a severe punishment for an officer; but to be associated with the fiasco of a brewery revolt is tragic...
...peace when we were loyal to them in time of war," said Mr. Pedro Guevara, Filipino commissioner in Washington while discussing at the Union last night some of the newspaper propaganda which is responsible for the feeling of Americans that the Filipinos are on the verge of a revolt...