Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times in history, when the "civil disobedience" of an unarmed people had overthrown a ruthless tyrant. After military revolt failed last month, practically the entire population of El Salvador rose in a spontaneous general strike (TIME, May 15). Led by students and professional men, the nation stopped like a clock. The Dictator's army deserted him; his cronies scuttled away...
...Dead. The revolt, largely military, failed because its officer leaders did not arm civilians. Now the civilians, aghast at the blood bath which followed, were taking .belated part. The country seethed with hatred for Martinez. Rich and poor all loathed and feared him. The people were on strike. They refused to buy Government lottery tickets, go to Government movie theaters. Druggists, doctors, lawyers, justices of the peace, hundreds of Government employes declined to work. Railroad workers struck. The schools, the National University were closed; both students and staff stayed away. Priests supported the movement. A mass for the souls...
...only newspapers appearing were those owned by the Dictator. No one bought them. But the country was flooded with typewritten sheets. When the April 17 issue of TIME arrived in El Salvador, the police expurgated it. At least one copy escaped. Its story of the revolt, translated, circulated underground among thousands who welcomed a true account of the bloodthirsty mystic in the Presidential Palace...
Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym-pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime: Laborite Be-van's revolt against Labor Minister Bevin in the House of Commons...
...keep his friends. Workers who had once followed him blindly came to distrust his close relationship with Churchill, his warm friendship with such Tories as Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, Minister of State Richard K. Law, Viscount Cranborne, leader of the House of Lords. A mounting rank-&-file revolt against Labor leaders in general and Bevin in particular produced a wave of unauthorized strikes in coal mines, factories, shipyards. Regulation iAA was Fighter Bevin's unpopular answer...