Read Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties Online
Authors: Paul Johnson
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Madaragia, Salvador de, 322
Madrid, 323, 329; and civil war, 334, 338, 339
Mafia, 103
Maga, Hubert, 517
Maginot, André, 330
Maginot Line, 148, 308
Mahgoub, Mohammed Ahmed, 684
Mailer, Norman, 628
Maistre, Joseph de, 144
Major, John, 746, 771
Makarios, Archbishop, 477
Malagasy, 507
Malatesta, Enrico, 98
Malawi, 526, 531, 542, 727
Malaya, 155, 395
Malaysia, 736
Malenkov, Georgi, 302, 455, 675
Mali, 528, 542
Malik Verlag, 116
Malloum, Felix, 538
Malraux, André, 143, 307, 337, 554, 576, 593, 648
Malvy, Louis, 16
Manchuria, 187, 192, 195, 445; Japanese occupation, 202, 310, 311, 313; Manchuria
(contd)
Communist control, 443, 446, 448
Mandel, Georges, 151, 365
Mandela, Nelson, 729
Mandelstam, Osip, 306
Manhattan Project, 408, 458
Manhood Suffrage Act (japan, 1925), 182
Manila, 428
Mann, Thomas, 8, 12, 112, 129, 284, 306
Mantoux, Etienne, 30
Mao Tse-tung, 191, 194, 353, 476, 567; collaboration with KMT, 195, 316, 317; parting of ways from Chiang, 196, 444; decision to become war-lord, 196–8; radical nationalism, 197, 316, 443; building of peasant army, 98–9, 201; as supreme Communist war-lord, 315–16, 443; ‘Long March’, 315, 443; and Sino-Japanese war, 316, 317; eventual aim to counter-attack KMT, 317; and civil war, 444–5; refuses coalition with Chiang, 444; ‘personality cult’, 444, 550; in control of mainland China, 446–7; ‘land reform’, 447, 548; independent nuclear programme, 451; foreign adulation, 544—5; public image, 545–6; romanticism and theatricality, 546–8; acceptance of prospect of nuclear war, 546; Thoiughts of, 547, 549; wish to speed up history, 547–9, 551; social and mental engineering, 548–9, 550–1, 552, 555–62; Great Leap to Communism, 550–2; Cultural Revolution, 552, 555–62; last phase, 562–3
Maran, René, 150
Marcks, Erich, 126
Marcks, General, 377
Marcuse, Jacques, 473
margin-trading, 231, 239
Marighela, Carlos, 498
Marinetti, Emilio, 96
Marion, Paul, 588
market system, 159–60, 518, 583, 591, 596, 697–8, 738; Third World, 729–30; Pacific area, 735–6; Chile, 738–9; North America and Europe, 739–40, 745–6
Marr, N.Y., 454
Marrakesh, 150
Marshall, General George, 391, 436, 439, 440, 441
Marshall, Thomas, 33
Marshall Plan, 28, 242, 440, 448, 457, 579, 582, 659, 671
Marsui, General Iwane, 317
Martin, Kingsley, 336, 337, 356
Martov, Julius, 128
Martov, Y.O., 79, 80
Marty André, 333
Marx, Groucho, 219
Marx, Karl, 54, 57, 96, 120, 135, 212; and scientific proof, 6; on central dynamic of economic interest, 10, 48; justification of terror, 66; vagueness over socialist economy, 89; concept of ‘alienation’, 118; and Judaism, 128; on ‘intellectuals’, 143; on hidden structures of society, 695; and Darwinism, 778
Marxism, 52, 119, 623, 691, 726; anti-Semitism derivative of, 117, 128; class warfare concept, 5; and fascism, 102; historical determinism, 54, 129, 435, 694–5; Lenin’s heresy, 54, 55, 56, 102; objective truth identity with, 53; and Structuralism, 696; survives in universities, 698
Masaryk, Jan, 440
Massachusetts, 211
Massé, Pierre, 587
Massey, William, 43
Massingham, HJ., 163
Massu, General Jacques, 500, 501, 502
Masterman, C.F.G., 163
Matisse, Henri, 8
Matos, Hubert, 623
Matsuoka, Yosuke, 387, 389, 390, 391
Matteotti, Giacomo, 100
Matthews, Herbert, 621
Mau Mau, 506, 520
‘Maud’ Committee (1941), 407, 408
Mauriac, François, 142
Mauritania, 507, 541, 542
Maurras, Charles, 145–7, 306, 576
Max of Baden, Prince, 24
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz, 702
Mba, Leon, 517
Means, Gardiner, 248
Means, Gaston, 218
Mecca, 710
Medawar, Sir Peter, 6
media, power of, 647, 649–53
Medvedev, Roy, 303, 304, 305, 679, 682
Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 176, 177
Meiji Restoration, 177, 179, 180, 182, 185, 187, 730
Meir, Golda, 454, 668
Mekhlis, Colonel-General L.Z., 383
Melchett, Lord, 235
Mellon, Andrew, 215, 218, 233, 244, 260, 269
Memel, 357
Mencken, H.L., 206, 210, 211, 257–8
Mendès-France, Pierre, 498, 587, 632
Menon, K.P.S., 456
Mensheviks, 52, 59, 62, 64, 79
Menzhinsky, Viacheslav, 53
Meredith, James, 645
Metaxas, General John, 610, 611
Mexico, 671, 694, 746–7
Mexico City, 704
Mezes, Dr S.E., 23
Michaels, Roberto, 56
micro-processors, 781
Midway Island, 396, 397, 400, 402, 410
Mikhoels, Solomon, 454
Mikoyan, Anastas, 269, 455, 625, 675
militarism: Afro-Asian, 513, 517, 529, 537–8; Chinese, 192–4, 198–201; Japanese, 181, 184, 185, 186, 188, 311– 12, 313–18; Latin American, 616, 628
Mill, John Stuart, 152
Millay, Edna St Vincent, 252
Miller, Adolph, 236
Million Heroes, 560
Mills, Wilbur, 640
Milner, Lord, 43, 44
Mines and Works Act (South Africa, 1911), 521
Minobe, Professor Tatsukichi, 312
Minton, Bruce, 250
Mises, L. von, 237
Mitbestimmung
(co-partnership), 584
Mitchell, Charles, 239
Mitterrand, François, 498, 507, 745, 771
Mobutu, Joseph Désiré, 516, 517, 531, 542
Modernism, 8–9, 114
Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur, 18, 127, 248, 279
Mohammed vi, Sultan, 20
Mola, General Emilio, 322, 328, 329, 331, 335
Moley, Raymond, 254, 255
Molotov, V.M., 84, 265, 269, 300 302, 359, 372, 373, 375, 436, 437, 455, 466–7, 675
monarchies, imperial, dissolution of, 19–20, 40, 191–2
monetarism, 134, 595
Mongolia, 448
Monnerat, Guy, 497
Monnet, Jean 142, 243, 590–1, 597
Monroe Doctrine, 615–16
Montrovia Group, 540
Montagu, Edwin, and Indian reform, 41–3, 44, 45, 46, 346, 510
Monteil, Vincent, 498
Montgomery, General Bernard, 436
Montherlant, Henri de, 19
Moore, G.E., 167–8, 171
‘Moplah’ riots (1921), 47
moral law, dictators’ contempt for, 85–6
‘Moral Majority’, 706
moral relativism, 177, 180, 201, 261, 263, 277, 296, 299, 370, 402–3, 419, 428–9, 535, 537, 689
Moreau, Emile, 235, 237
Morell, Professor Theodor, 412
Morgan, Brig.-General J.H., 139
Morgan, J.P., 235, 260
Morgenthau, Henry, 392
Mori, Hirozo, 190
Morocco, 149–50, 155, 330, 366, 410, 526, 541, 542
Morozov, Dr Georgy, 682
Morris, Leland, 387
Morrison, Henry, 402
Morrison, Samuel Eliot, 27
Mortimer, Raymond, 168, 170
Moscow: party purge in, 301, 302; German drive on, 378–9
Moslem League, 473
Mosul oilfields, 148
Mountbatten, Lord, 468, 473, 474
Moussa Sadr, Imam, 709
Moynihan, Daniel P., 640
Mozambique, 44, 519, 526, 542, 727, 728
MRP (Mouvement Républicain Populaire), 589
Muenzenberg, Willi, 336
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 161, 276, 307
Muhsam, Erich, 289
Mujib Rahman, Sheikh, 569
Mukden, 195, 447
multinationals, 693–4, 696
Multiple Use Act (US, 1964), 661
Munich, 112, 133; Conference (1938), 344, 355
Muradelli, Vano, 453
Murdoch, Rupert, 743–4
Murry, J. Middleton, 350
Musil, Robert, 286
Mussadeq, Mohammed, 491
Mussolini, Benito, 147, 351, 353, 366, 386, 578–9; as Marxist heretic, 57–8; switch from internationalism to nationalism, 95, 197; and radical revolution, 96; use of vanguard élites, 96, 181; belief in violence, 96, 97, 98–9; formation of Fascist Party, 95–6; in parliament, 98; determined to govern, 99; march on Rome, 99–100, 134; forms government, 100; creation of totalitarian state, 101–3, 126; invades Abyssinia, 147, 320–1, gradual corruption towards Right, 319–21, 323; changed attitude to Hitler, 321; ‘Pact of Steel’, 321, 359; at Munich, 355; in Second World War, 364, 410; defeat and death, 410
Myrdal, Jan, 545
Nader, Ralph, 661
Nadzharov, Professor Ruben, 682
Nagane, Admiral Osami, 388, 389, 391, 392, 402
Nagasaki, 426
Nagata, General Tetsuzan, 313
Nagumo, Admiral, 394
Namibia, 542, 728
Nanking, 317, 328, 447
Narayan, Jayaprakash, 569, 570
Narkomnats (People’s Commissariat of Nationalities), 76, 77
Nassau Agreement (1962), 468
Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 480, 485, 488–93, 513, 517, 666–7
National Association of Manufacturers (US), 232
National City Company, 234
National Civil Federation (US), 205
National Council against Conscription, 168
National Graphical Association, 743–4
National Industrial Recovery Act (US, 1933), 256
National Labour Relations Act (US, 1935), 255 National Monetary Association, 235
‘National Security Council 68’ document, 442
National Security League (US), 205
National Socialist (Nazi) Party: origin, 124; success among students 127; creation of, 133–4, 278; programme, 133; centralized but participatory party, 278; use of violence, 279, 282; as defender of ‘Aryan order’, 279; and
Führerprinzip, 279; benefit from fear of Left and ‘Red Terror’, 279, 281; as second largest party in
Reichstag, 281, 282; fall in vote, 283; key posts in Hitler’s cabinet, 283; declared only legal party, 286; abandonment of rule of law, 289–91; exclusion from industry and army, 295; ruthless purge of, 296–9; camps system, 304–5
National Union of Mineworkers, 740–3
nationalism, 107; academic encouragement of, 126–7; black, 526–8; post-war (1918), 20–2, 23, 36–40; religion and, 180–1; Afro-Asian, 513–14; American, 203–6, 215; Chinese, 194–5, 197–9, 443; French, 144–7, 592, 595–7; German, 278; Japanese, 181, 183, 186–90
Nationalists, Boer, 522, 525
Nationalists, Spanish, 328, 329–30, 331–2, 339
Native Administration Act (South Africa, 1927), 521
Native Affairs Act (South Africa, 1920), 521
Native (Urban Areas) Act (South Africa, 1923), 521
Natives Und Act (South Africa, 1913), 521
nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 32, 493, 672, 768
Nauru, 736
Navarre, 328
Nawiasky, Professor Hans, 128
Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939), 139, 360, 373, 375, 387, 410, 429, 432
Nazis -
see
National Socialist Party
Ne Win, General, 573
Needham, Joseph, 348
Negrin Juan, 333, 334
Neguib, General Mohammed, 485, 488
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 47, 472–7, 512, 567, 572
Neibuhr, Reinhold, 252
Nenni, Pietro, 579
Neruda, Pablo, 276
Netherlands, 199, 415
Neumann, Alfred, 117
Neurath, Baron von, 352
Neutrality Act (US, 1935), 310, 344
New Caledonia, 736
New Deal, 17, 241, 255–7, 259, 344, 402
‘New Economic Planning’, 93, 268
New Frontier, 17
‘New Nationalism’, 16
New Realism, 114
New Zealand, 43, 175, 746
Newman, John Henry, 701
newspapers, industrial disputes, 743–4
Newton, Sir Isaac, cosmology of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ngo Dinh Diem, 632, 633
Nguyen Duy Trinh, 648
Nicaragua, 671, 685, 705
Nichols, Robert, 19, 163
Nicolson, Harold, 21, 23, 27, 41, 349
Nieh Yuan-tzu, 557
Nietzsche, Elizabeth, 132
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 48, 57, 118, 119, 143, 576, 577, 597, 700
Nigeria, 513–14, 518, 531, 541, 542
Nigkang, 201
Nikolaev, Leonid, 300
Nin, Andrés, 334
Nine Power Treaty (1922), 188
Nishina, Yoshio, 409, 426
Nissho, Inoue, 184
Nitobe, Drlnazo, 181
Nixon, Richard, 460, 461, 613, 614, 624, 644, 663, 664, 748; and media, 647; narrow presidential victory, 647–8; disengagement from Vietnam, 648, 653; China policy, 648–9; Watergate, 649–53, 668
Nkrumah, Kwame, 477, 511–13, 518
NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs), 91, 300, 301, 303, 304, 307, 334, 335, 373, 681
No-Conscription Fellowship, 168
Noel, Conrad, 165
Noguchni, Isamu, 4
non-alignment, 477, 489–90, 494, 684–5, 690, 691
Non-Proliferation Treaty (1970), 467, 686
Nordau, Max, 12
Noriega, General Manuel, 752–3
Norman, Montagu, 235–6, 237
‘North-South’ concept, 692–3
North Atlantic Treaty (1949), 442
Northern Rhodesia, 159
‘northern tier’, 489
Norway, 363, 604–5
Noske, Gustav, 94, 123, 124
Novocherkassk, 679
nuclear weapons, atomic bomb, 406–10, 425–7, 429; America, 441, 442, 451, 468, 674, 753–4; Russia, 442, 451, 455, 467, 468, 674, 753; China, 451, 573, 686; H- bomb, 452; Britain, 467–8, 753; India, 573, 686; Pakistan, 573, 686; Cuban missile crisis, 625–8; proliferation, 685–7; nuclear weapons
(contd)
Israel, 686; South Africa, 686; Germany, 686; Iraq, 686, 714; threat diminished, 768
Nuremberg Laws for Jews (1935), 290, 292, 321
Nuremberg trials (1948),’ 422, 588
Nyasaland, 508
Nyerere, Julius, 528–30, 536, 537, 538, 542
O’Neill, Eugene, 226, 247
OAS
(Organization de l’Armée Secrète)
, 503, 504
OAU (Organization of African Unity), 526, 527, 536–8
Obote, Milton, 533–4, 537
OGPU (United State Political Administration), 265, 266, 272, 273, 274, 288, 301
‘Ohio Gang’, 217, 218, 220, 252
Ohlendorf, Otto, 382 oil, 480–1, 491, 665–70, 671, 707, 713, 714, 747, 769, 774
Okada, Admiral Keisuke, 314