Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between prose and verse; others stand immovable with their backs to the safe wall of the old classic verse forms; still others are running the whole gamut between the two extremes. It is a day of experiment and confusion, where tradition has lost its authority, and where revolt has not yet proved its predominance...
...failures. Aguinaldo, it is thought, believed that upon the ousting of Spain, the Philippines would be entirely free. The peace treaty turned possession of the Islands from Spain to the United States. This disappointment and the refusal to admit the Filipino leader and his men into Manila, precipitated a revolt, which an American military force of occupation succeeded in putting down only after three years of campaigning...
...Wirth, himself of the Centre Party, sought a Reichstag majority by placing in his cabinet a large proportion of Socialists. But the Rathenau murder and the Bavarian revolt revealed a strong monarchistic reaction which enlisted the industrialists headed by Hugo Stinnes and which concealed itself under the name of Liberal or People's Party. Hence the Wirth cabinet had arrayed against it not only the avowed monarchical Conservatives but the powerfully influential industrialists of the People's Party...
...teacher of Christian doctrines, he has had a great deal to do with the natives themselves, and knows their habits and customs, as well as their point of view. It is the Hindu point of view which the world at large must understand in order to comprehend the Ghandi revolt against English rule, which has completely transformed India, and changed it from a nation of submissive onlookers to one of active revolutionists...
Thus England stands between two fires. To refuse to heed the Mohammedan demands means revolt in India and perhaps in Egypt as well. Yet to comply with them would cause the breaking of promises made to Jews and Arabs as to Jerusalem and Mecca, and the return of the Sultan to Constantinople. It would further entail recognition of the power of the Moslem in a British dominion, as well as the relinquishing of India to confusion. For the Hindus are not yet ready for complete self-rule, despite the great extension of powers granted them through an Indianized civil service...