Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real life to the achievement of any such diabolical design. [One] obstacle lies in the impossibility of keeping every living human soul psychologically conditioned simultaneously. In history up to date, there has been no schooling that has been able to guarantee to tyrants that their subjects will not revolt at last at some intolerable turn of the screw. The revolting-point may be reached sooner in Irishmen than in Germans, and sooner in Germans than in Russians or in Chinese; but in all human beings, hitherto, there has always been a point at which the worm has turned. Even when...
Hong Kong Impressions. Attlee and most British Socialists have never entirely believed that the Chinese Communists are real Communists; they regard them as the product of a genuine popular revolt against Chiang Kai-shek's government, and believe that much of Red China's hostility comes from the U.S. refusal to grant it recognition. At a press conference in Hong Kong, Attlee admitted that his "impressions" had not much changed. But the man who had said he knew eyewash when he saw it professed not to have been taken in: "We found, and expected to find, that China...
Tradition Upheld. Burnet Maybank could be understood only as a Southern aristocrat. Few of the breed survived politically the triple ordeals of Civil War, Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction revolt of the South's small farmers and small townsmen-those variously described as the wool-hats, the plain people, the Snopeses; the hillbillies or the pine hill men. Unlike them, Maybank trusted government because he was born to it. Unlike them, he distrusted big government because he wanted nothing from it for himself or his group-other than participation in responsibility and power...
...larger revolt than anticipated by U.S. diplomats, and a crucial factor in their misreading...
Luis Taruc, for eight years the head of the bloody Communist Huk revolt in the Philippine hills, strode into Manila's packed City Hall last week to be tried for rebellion and a string of other crimes including arson, murder, kidnaping and robbery. The defense asked the court to drop seven of the 30 counts against him on the ground that a 1948 presidential amnesty absolved these crimes. The prosecution agreed, even though the seventh count-involving the ambush murder of Aurora Quezon, widow of the onetime President-was committed a full year after the amnesty had been granted...