Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Stout covered world events with a special eye to Latin interests: a two-page lead on Puerto Rico's revolt and the attempted assassination of President Truman, a roundup of the Holy Year in Rome, a feature on the Spanish navy. But he also gave full accounts of the war in Asia, plenty of cheesecake, an updating on television and flying saucers. Editorially, Vision promised not to "take the side of any single country . . . or of any internal group of any nation...
...into a kind of classical Mozartian music. The plays date most seriously when they are debates, yet the verbal wit is perennially irresistible. There is no writer who so conspicuously and largely holds the whole social and political and intellectual life of a long, rich period of heresy and revolt in his hands, a revolt against everything from marriage to God-and back...
Protestantism in Spain, he emphasizes, is not a foreign faith, but is solidly Spanish and loyally so. "I think there could be no greater mistake than to suppose that Spanish Protestants constitute any kind of focus of revolt against the present regime, even though . . . they favor a kind of civil and religious liberty which is wholly alien to its program...
...forget that I'm also Wise'." ¶ The late Major General Smedley D. Butler, made a captain at 19 for bravery during the Boxer Rebellion, once walked alone into a rebel camp during a Nicaraguan revolution, seized the rebel general by his mustache, and ended the revolt. Years later, having retired after an uproar over his burning criticisms of Mussolini, he wrote an article [for Liberty] entitled "To Hell with the Admirals...
...American takes no action, the Philippine Islands will soon be ripe for a successful Communist-becked popular uprising. The United States will then be forced to put down the revolt with American troops and to establish martial law, or to give up the twenty-three military, naval, and air bases she holds in the Islands...