Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devious, paradoxical form, expressed in National Socialism and Communism. The masses had been lured into believing that nobody was taking their freedom away, but that they were renouncing it of their own will, for their own good; thus, even despotism could emerge only as a mass movement, a popular revolt." Papen had not misjudged Hitler: he had misjudged the masses, the dominant political force of his time...
Rumania. The Nazis were combating revolt and sabotage. There was a rumor that Premier General Ion Antonescu had left his Premiership and his command beside the Nazis on the Russian front...
Significance. Europe's revolt against Adolf Hitler was not one movement, but many. In Yugoslavia it was hot, open civil war, abetted by traditional Balkan Pan-Slavic sympathies. Soviet Russia even spared "a certain number" of bombers to aid the insurgents. In Czecho-Slovakia it was the discovered sabotage of highly organized underground rebels as the high rank of many of the condemned suggested. Widespread in Europe were examples of that single zealotry of which Paul Collette was the prime symbol...
There was no evidence of a single coordinating office-a General Staff of Revolt-located in Britain or anywhere else. There seemed no good reason to believe that Europe's scattered plots and outbreaks would crucially affect Adolf Hitler in the near future. But the executed corpses that swung above, or lay crumpled upon, Europe's tragic ground were stirring greater rebellions...
...retains significant strength (especially among brass hats) in the Army, is said to have masterminded the suppression of last fortnight's aviation-branch "revolt" (TIME, Oct. 6). He can count on support from Ramon Castillo. He remains in the good graces of the U.S. State Department. But the Radical Party, mindful of his strong-arm treatment of its leaders when he was last in power, will be out to nail him. Consensus: dark horse he may be, but not too dark to wind up atop the Conservative Party's ticket. If so, he will probably be elected, although...