Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy of allowing the Germans to disorganize French North African possessions, declared that French aircraft factories were making war planes for Germany. In London Count Jacques de Sieyes, De Gaullist agent newly arrived from the U. S., announced: "The French people are not only starving, but absolutely ready for revolt - if they had the means to carry...
...shipments through a neutral commission, not more than three days' supply of food could fall into the hands of the Nazis. Brouha, who fied Belgium last spring, agreed with him when he said, "Food is a very good means of strengthening morale in the conquered democracies and stimulating revolt against the Germans...
Haile Selassie, whom the British now call Highly Satisfactory, pushed on into Ethiopia last week with a new weapon -propaganda. Even in the Ethiopian bush this proved to be a potent factor, for the area into which the Negus was pressing was Gojjam Province, long a hotbed of native revolt against the Italians. Haile Selassie's organ of propaganda was a newspaper written in Amharic, called Bandarchen ("Our Flag"), bordered with the Ethiopian Imperial colors, mastheaded with the monogram of the Lion of Judah, and bristling with nationalistic slogans. Sixty camels, with armed escort under a British officer, carried...
...revolution of nihilism, which Rauschning previously treated as a German manifestation, he now calls the last tremor of the 500-year-long revolt of the masses. Formerly the ancien régime, the old order, kept the masses in check. But skeptical humanism has sapped the faith of the masses in the old order while it sapped the faith of the old order in itself. Hitler, himself a man of the masses, had the political genius to perceive that the revolution is everywhere because the masses are everywhere. He did not make the revolution, he used...
...raids on Antwerp and over Germany sandpapered the soldiers' nerves. Against strict orders, they got drunk oftener. By September, soldiers were forbidden to carry sidearms. More & more of them listened to the London broadcasts (penalty, two years in a concentration camp). Such symptoms might never focus in revolt; but it was safe to say that German morale could never regain its high pitch of summer...