Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris General Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet hastily drafted plans to remove the causes of revolt, chiefly hunger. Algeria's 8,000,000 people are near the famine line. A succession of bad harvests, coupled with a wartime lack of imports, has reduced Algerian rations to 500 calories a day, only a third of what a Frenchman gets. In Little Kabylia whole villages were abandoned by a desperate population Streaming toward the cities. Fields were torn up in a desperate forage for edible roots...
...Wavell Plan fails, the Viceroy has the full approval of the British Cabinet to use the Indian Army to keep order and suppress any revolt quickly. He has asked for an increase of British officers in the Indian Army...
Said a usually reliable source (from Newell way), "Women already have entered factories; they are commonly seen as taxi drivers and street car conductors; they have even become doctors and lawyers-they MUST NOT be allowed to invade man's most sacred occupation, crew racing. This movement of incipient revolt must be stopped. Together men of Harvard, the day of glory has arrived...
...Sunday, April 22 men went on strike. The city's German garrison correctly interpreted this as the prelude to a revolt, withdrew from the streets into their barracks. On Wednesday a general strike was called. Demonstrations against the Germans and Fascists swept through the city. That evening Mussolini, as chief of the Republican Fascist Government, and his War Minister, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, met with partisan representatives. Terms of surrender "were discussed. Mussolini cried: "The Germans have betrayed me!" Bombastically he asked for one hour's time to inform the German High Command of his displeasure...
Clanking and wheezing, a spavined suburban train crept out of Rio de Janeiro. Late as usual, packed to the gills with the sweating homeward-bound, it broke down outside the city. For a while the passengers endured with true commuter calm. Then, like an oilfield fire, wild revolt swept through the train. The long-suffering customers tore out the seats by the roots, dragged down light fixtures and luggage racks, turned the train into a shambles...