Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inevitable products of a series of recent events which have cast a shadow over America's reputation across the Atlantic. There remains, even after a year of second-thoughts, considerable disappointment in Washington's handling of the Hungarian revolution. Charges of hypocrisy and cowardice still arise when the revolt is discussed, and although it is generally admitted that we could not safely have done much more, many observers continue to feel that we should have, that we might have taken some risk...
...hill-all worried by the political disintegration of their country (TIME, Sept. 23). Basking in the joys of reconciliation, Hatta and Sukarno flew off together to "Indonesia's Arlington Cemetery" in Djokjakarta to purge their souls of rancor at the grave of General Sudirman, military hero of the revolt against the Dutch. For the first time since his resignation as Vice President last December, Hatta accepted a social invitation to the presidential palace, even joined Sukarno in leading lissome Moluccas maidens through the steps of the "sweety-sweety" dance, To cap the ceremonies, a troupe of Central Javanese actors...
...week wore on, many Indonesians including Mohammed Hatta, began to be assailed by the uncomfortable suspicion that what was going on was just another of Sukarno's morality plays. Among the things that had driven Hatta into opposition and the colonels into revolt were Sukarno's campaigns to convert Indonesia into a "guided democracy" and to bring the Communists into its government. By joining Sukarno in a public pledge of amity, Hatta had, in effect, agreed to moderate his outspoken criticism of the President. But, Hatta discovered last week, cagey Politician Sukarno himself was making no move...
Consequences of Revolt. Luther inevitably dominates the stage, but Durant does well by the other great Reformation leaders-John Knox, the virtuoso of invective, and Calvin, the black icicle of theology for whose doctrine of predestination even-tempered Author Durant reserves one of his rare flashes of indignation ("We shall always find it hard to love the man who darkened the human soul with [an] absurd and blasphemous conception...
Patiently, precisely, Durant portrays the manifold consequences of Luther's revolt. Every man might now be his own theologian; every state (if it had the power) might withhold its allegiance to Rome. The tortures and burnings of heretics on both sides became part of each nation's struggle to maintain its chosen order. Britain's Henry VIII, for example, quarreled with Papists as well as Protestants when he deemed them a menace to his royal law and order, was apt to burn both on the same day. Luther condemned radical sectarians-Zwinglians, Anabaptists, peasant-reformers-with righteous...