Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British had, besides, sent troops and planes to Iraq. In three weeks of sand-lot holy warfare, they had crushed the Air Force and just about crushed the land forces of the pro-Axis Premier-by-Revolt Rashid Ali El-Gailani. Last week the British reinforced their garrison in Iraq by sending units of the Fleet Air Arm to the top of the Persian Gulf...
...Nazi and Adolf Hitler's best friend was the first man in Europe to revolt successfully against Adolf Hitler...
...plan and nature of the maneuvers, which employed 11,000 troops for a fortnight, was a key to the new destiny of the Ejercito Mexicano. The imagined danger was not an uprising, not a local revolt: a foreign power was supposed to be at tempting to invade Mexico. Significantly the invasion was supposed to come from Mexico's east coast, facing the stormy Caribbean and stormier Europe, rather than the west coast, which is said to have been thoroughly explored by swarms of Japanese "fishermen." A "Red" Army was detailed to defend the 6,000-foot great central plateau...
...seized power last September. But his opposition is also lawless. One exiled Paraguayan is onetime Dictator Rafael Franco, who has been supporting himself manufacturing soap in a small apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. Last week, through the censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo for the Paraguayan capital, but at the request of General Morinigo's Government Montevideo police kept Rafael Franco where he was. A communiqué from Asunción announced that the up rising had been put down "with...
William H. Chamberlin, prominent author and journalist, will open the afternoon session with an address on "The Revolt Against Civilization." Later in the afternoon there will be discussions on "The Significance of Pan-Americanism Today" and "Democracy Between Two Worlds...