Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Radio Moscow announced that Russian troops had begun to pull out of North Korea. On the same day, a Communist-inspired revolt broke out in Korea's southern...
With MacArthur's words to encourage them, the South Korean army energetically set about crushing the revolt. It had begun one morning before dawn, when 40 Communist members of a brigade stationed in the far southern port of Yosu shot their officers and bullied their sleepy comrades into attacking the city police station. They took over all of Yosu, then headed north, picking up confused recruits along the way. By the time they reached Sunchon, a city of 75,000, their force had grown to around...
...week's end government forces had retaken most of the territory won by the rebels; they expected to recover Yosu soon. Asked who was responsible for the revolt, President Rhee said: "We really do not know." Then he pointed a finger to the north and added: "But all of our troubles come from one source...
...suggestion that Haya and his lieutenants were too smart to have mixed in the inept Callao revolt, anti-Apristas had an answer. The army had been expected to join the revolt; instead had remained loyal to President Bustamante. Others accused Aprista leaders of cowardice. Said one: "I have always believed Haya to be just a tough guy with no guts...
...democratic government was restored to Peru in 1945, the Apristas emerged as the country's most powerful political party. Rightists refused to work with them or to trust them, and the Apristas, by turning again to violence, gave reason for this distrust. It was inevitable that the Callao revolt should be pinned on them and on Haya de la Torre, APRA's founding father...