Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greasy, thick-lipped Pierre Laval went home and sought solace in music. He turned on his radio and heard in idiomatic French: "Frenchmen! Take up arms against the invaders and light the fuse of revolt. Ici Moscou. Ici Moscou." He spun the dial nervously and heard London's Fighting French station saying: "Frenchmen, Wait!" He felt better, but not much...
...attempt to stem the rising tide of revolt, Adolf Hitler ordered a Balkan conference. Hitler, Mussolini, Admiral Horthy of Hungary, King Boris of Bulgaria and Premier General Ion Antonescu of Rumania were to meet in Vienna to try to straighten out the New Order in Southern Europe...
...Bulgaria underground organizations were stirring the pro-Russian peasantry to open revolt, to overthrow the regime and force King Boris to sign a pact with Russia...
Said Anthony Eden, the entire Balkans would burst into revolt "at the appointed hour." In Sofia cellars and in Serbian mountain passes many wondered who would appoint the hour, and when it would come...
...draped babes in their arms filled Mexico City's great central square, the Plaza de la Constitución. All eyes focused on the presidential palace. The crowd had heard but the crowd could not believe. Was it possible, even on the 132nd anniversary of Mexico's revolt against Spain, that old and bitter political rivalries could be dissolved in the crisis...