Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force. That they have aggressive Air Force personnel was indicated by the fact that last week's coup was engineered by the Air Force. Not only did Air Force Chief General Dusan Simovitch take over the Government: his blue-uniformed fliers personally commanded the tanks which supported his revolt. In an air corps general's uniform King Peter II took his regal oath...
...When The Revolt of the Masses (1932) became an international bestseller, nobody was more surprised than its author, Jose Ortega y Gasset, a quiet professor of metaphysics at Madrid University. But this forecast, actually written three years before Hitler came to power, soon had the ring of prophecy: "Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or something to take command, to impose an occupation, a duty...
...response to this increase in compulsory service and the recurrent agitation for a National Government, smart, aging Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe has been openly hinting at a revolt of Quebec M.P.s, active resistance from the French-Canadian third of the Dominion...
...Guatemala President Jorge Ubico, elected in 1931, held a plebiscite in 1935, extended his term until 1943. In El Salvador Vice President General Maximiliano Hernàndez Martinez took office in 1931 after an Army revolt had deposed President Arturo Araujo. Refused recognition by the U. S., he resigned in 1934, ran for the Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President...
Jesus is reduced in this type of thought to the stature of a leader of a proletarian revolt against the rich. . . . Capitalists are not greater sinners than poor laborers by any natural depravity. But it is a fact that those who hold great economic and political power are more guilty of pride against God and of injustice against the weak than those who lack power and prestige. A too simple social radicalism does not recognize how quickly the poor, the weak, the despised of yesterday, may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance...