Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof that bygones were bygones, for it was battle-seasoned Captain Burke who ran Operation 23, propaganda center of the Navy's unsuccessful revolt against Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and the 6-36. His name had been scratched off the promotion list a month ago-reportedly by Louis Johnson. That it got back on was a victory for Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations...
...Honor of Revolt. Koestler joined the party in 1931, while he was a science and foreign editor for the publishing house of Ullstein in Berlin. It was the era when "wheat was burned, fruit artificially spoiled and pigs . . . drowned ... to keep prices up and enable fat capitalists to chant to the sound of harps, while Europe trembled under the torn boots of hunger-marchers . . ." Just like all the other authors of this volume, Koestler decided "that in the face of revolting injustice the only honorable attitude is to revolt, and to leave introspection for better times...