Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explosion were 1) Moscow, 2) oil. Ever since the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) curtly rejected Russia's claim for oil rights in northern Iran and forbade any Government to negotiate such rights till after the war (TIME, Dec. 18, 1944), Russia had been needling the Iranian Government. The Azerbaijan revolt looked like the substitution of action for frustrated diplomacy...
...hesitate to predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The reasons are partly historic and partly aggravated by the present situation (the use of Indian troops in Java, for one thing). Certainly the tinderbox has been moved nearer the match by the Indians' frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant-1) that the British are keeping such...
...word must have been passed even in the deepest and blackest holes of these poverty-stricken countries that there was a new deal on, forceful rule was out, and equality because you're a HUMAN BEING in 11 The Indonesians try to rule their own country, the Annamese revolt against the return of French rule, and they're cut down by machine-gun fire like animals. I can't understand the mental make-up of people who were themselves just released from the yoke of the vanquished and now take up the mantle of Conqueror again...
...Army was not in a state of revolt. But Russia's rulers were audibly disturbed. President Mikhail Kalinin himself recently took note of returning Red Army men's complaints that they could find nothing to buy. The veterans, he admitted, to a certain extent were impressed by German "petty culture." Then he gave some serious advice to Party propagandists and agitators who would have to deal, among other things, with veterans no longer happy at home...
...Minister General Eurice Gaspar Dutra, clammy-handed, reformed pro-Nazi creator of Brazil's modern army, was the candidate of the old administration. Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes, legendary hero of a revolt 23 years ago, was Dutra's opponent...