Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders have liked the pork but not the principles of the New Deal. Now, with the political pendulum swinging away from those principles, and the pork scarce, they were prepared to speak their minds. In their minds were two questions : 1 ) How far were they prepared to carry their revolt? 2) How far would the rank-&-file Southern voters follow them...
...unexplained reasons, the cable to Giraud was delivered two days before De Gaulle received his message. Giraud promptly appointed a new governor for French Guiana. So did De Gaulle when he learned of the revolt. Pending the arrival of Giraud's permanent appointee, Colonel Albert Jean Paul le Bel (No. 2 man of the Giraud mission in Washington) was dispatched to take temporary charge. De Gaulle also named a temporary appointee, Colonel Pierre de Chevigné, who was also in Washington. Colonel le Bel got instant cooperation from the State Department (and the use of a U.S. Army transport...
What will happen in Germany, as the war drawn to a close? Will there be a revolt of the army or its officers against the Nazi Party? Or a civilian uprising in Germany? Probably not. Communism? Possibly sporadic efforts to establish it. More likely, however, there will be more or less chaotic conditions after the Nazi totalitarian machine has ben destroyed and its leaders have been assassinated, or taken to flight or hiding, or handed over to be punished as war criminals...
...bull-necked southern samurai Saigo, whose revolt in 1866 against the Shogun unified the Japanese clans under the Emperor for the first time in centuries. He later revolted against his Emperor and died the death of an ancient Roman...
...held together. But by that time the brutal nobility of a machine had made its dent in history: "The fall of Almeida was the beginning of that ebb tide which was to continue until the Allies should reach Paris. And Almeida fell because of the success of the revolt of the North. And it was the gun which was the cause of that success...