Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such is the type of regime which threatens to spread to other Latin countries. Notably endangered is uneasy, inflated Chile (TIME, Jan. 10) which still fears a military revolt, backed by Argentina and possibly led by ex-President Carlos...
...Paris filled him with joy. He volunteered to go to Soissons, seize some badly needed powder. The commander of the arsenal, a former colonial officer, at first refused to surrender to the kinky-haired playwright. But the officer's wife cried: "Oh, my darling, yield! This is another revolt of the Negroes!" Dumas brought back the powder to Paris, was embraced by Lafayette and the Duke of Orleans, who said: "M. Dumas, you have just achieved your finest drama...
From the bleak altiplano of Bolivia, the revolt of the traffic cops (TIME, Jan. 3) strutted out on a world stage. It sent a chill of apprehension throughout all Latin America. It scared the U.S. State Department into unseemly confusion. It even touched, lightly, the relations between Soviet Russia and the Americas...
...major, had been recognized only by Argentina. The Inter-American Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, had agreed that its member nations should consult before taking action; they were still consulting last week. Argentina's totalitarian Government, ignored by the Committee and widely suspected of instigating the revolt (a Chilean Communist paper, El Siglo, said that Dictator-Colonel Juan Domingo Péron had boasted of doing so), had hesitated 14 days...
...Bolivian Mission," was in the odd position of trying to secure recognition for a Government which he himself did not entirely recognize. An avowed and convincing liberal, he has lived 14 years in the U.S., and has no direct connection with any Bolivian party. Just after the La Paz revolt he quit his job as adviser to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Last week he paced disconsolately around the orphaned Bolivian Embassy, not knowing what would happen to him and his three "keeds," or to his stormy country...