Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India's Britons recalled the horror stories of 1857, when Army mutineers seized seven of India's cities, including Delhi. Would Indian Army troops revolt again? Already Indian Air Force men had staged sympathy "strikes." Like the Navy mutineers, soldiers demand better pay, better food, faster demobilization. Indian troops, the bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world's trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able...
...name John Reed, which should be familiar to all English Aa Students through his "Almost Thirty" is that of the foreign correspondent, who took a roving commission through Europe in the 1910 to 1920 period. As a newspaperman, Reed covered the Russian revolution and the Mexican revolt, becoming a close friend of Pancho Villa...
...again, in appealing to the princes and nobles, he wrote: "We owe this revolt to none other on earth than to you . . . who are hardened to the present day and do not cease to rage against the Holy Gospel, and in your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word...
...situation became so critical that Major General Clovis E. Byers, chief of staff of the Eighth Army in Japan, warned: "None of our divisions is up to full strength. ... If any group of Japanese decided the time was ripe for revolt they would certainly pick a time when they believed there was dissatisfaction in the American Army. It appears that subversive forces are deliberately at work, for obscure reasons, attempting to undermine the morale of our Army." The soldiers still felt that the only critical situation was their distance from home...
While Hindus and Moslems were snarling at each other, Jawaharlal Nehru, ardent champion of Indian independence, summed up for them and for the world India's New Year's mood: "[We] will not willingly submit to any empire or any domination, and will revolt against it. It will be a continuing revolt of millions, with a passion behind it which even the atomic bomb will not suppress...