Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that they had been talking about was possible revolt against the Arbenz regime. Reporter Rosenhouse was collecting material for the cover story scheduled that week on President Arbenz (TIME. June 28). At the time the revolt began. TIME Bureau Chief Bob Lubar was on his way to Honduras from Mexico City to cover the rebel forces, and three part-time correspondents had been alerted to help cover the Arbenz story: Robert Clark in San Salvador, Nick Agurcia in Tegucigalpa, and Henry Wallace from Havana, who was in Honduras reporting the United Fruit Co. strike...
...morning of the second day of the revolt, said Rosenhouse, "We were up bright and early to cope with the greatest problem of all: how to file to New York through the tightest censorship ever in effect in Guatemala. A week before, a courier had sent the story from San Salvador. But now no planes were flying...
...much did the U.S. have to do with the turn of events? No matter who furnished the arms to Castillo Armas, it was abundantly clear that U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy masterminded most of the changes once Castillo Armas began his revolt. It was he who helped spot the phoniness of the first palace change, and it was he who saw to it that the new government was solidly antiCommunist...
...Heydrich, according to Hoettl, who worked out the plans for the mass extermination of the Jews and for the stringent Nazi subjugation of Czechoslovakia.* It was Heydrich who planted the idea in Hitler's mind that his old party comrade, Ernst Roehm, was plotting a storm-trooper revolt, and Heydrich himself, says Hoettl, made up the lists of the hundreds who were done away with on June 30, 1934, the "night of the long knives." If Hoettl can be believed, Heydrich achieved his masterpiece when he painstakingly forged a correspondence suggesting that the brilliant chief military strategist...
...Rubles. Late in 1936, according to Hoettl, German intelligence heard that Tukhachevsky was planning an army revolt against the Soviet dictator and his regime. Heydrich persuaded Himmler and Hitler that they should tip off Stalin, and thus touch off a purge that would gut the Soviet high command. Stalin bit, even paid 3,000,000 rubles for the forged bait, and in the trials of 1937, purged Tukhachevsky and all his confederates. The rubles, says Hoettl in an ironic footnote, were counterfeit; the first German agent who spent them in Russia was promptly arrested...