Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...hrer will appear once more," rasped the loudspeakers. "He has important conferences and asks you all to go home." Instead, the crowd began singing We Are Sailing Against England. Happy Hitler came out on the balcony again, then went inside for good. The throngs slowly dispersed, into the falling darkness of blacked-out Berlin...
This week Mexico had an election. The nation took it seriously; deadpanned the act, as if it really were enjoying all the blessings of democratic free choice, instead of a wide-open affair of pistoleros and cheats. As a matter of fact, it looked early in the week as if the election might come closer to democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance...
...humble priest named Hidalgo, taking advantage of Napoleon's recent triumph over Spain, began a revolution on behalf of the Indians which was climaxed eleven years later by the achievement of independence. For half a century Mexico tried to become Republican, became instead something like a musical comedy plot. There were in that period two regencies, two emperors, and no less than 74 presidents and acting presidents...
Jitterbugs and night owls twiddled their dials, got, instead of their accustomed Gene Krupa, Eddy Duchin, Tommy Dorsey, et al., a new crop of studio musicians-trios, quartets, unknown bands, variety shows. No one liked this much, but at week's end no one had moved to break the deadlock...
Presently, in Casablanca, arrived the man whom great Lyautey designated in 1916 to succeed him as Governor of Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...