Read Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties Online
Authors: Paul Johnson
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Salten, Felix, 116
Salter, Sir Arthur, 235
samurai, 181, 183, 184
São Paulo, 704
sanctions, 320–1
Sandys, Duncan, 405
Sansom, Sir George, 318
‘Santa Clara, Battle of (1958), 622
Saragat, Giuseppe, 579
Saragossa, 328
Sarraut, Albert, 148, 150, 151
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 143, 575–6, 687, 694
Sassoon, Seigfried, 163, 350
Saturn rocket, 629
satyagraha
(passive resistance), 44
Sauckel, Fritz, 291, 417
Saudi Arabia, 667, 670
Saundby, Sir Robert, 404
Sauvy, Alfred, 692
Scargill, Arthur, 740–3
Schacht, Dr Hjalmar, 136, 236, 291, 292, 294, 352
Schäfer, Dietrich, 126
Schall, Thomas, 258
Scheidemann, Philipp, 123
Schirach, Baldur von, 284, 321
Schleicher, General Kurt von, 281, 282, 283, 298
Schmitt, Carl, 126, 279
Schmoller, Gustav, 152
Schnitzler, Arthur, 113, 116
Schoenberg, Arnold, 8, 117
Schoenfeld, Arthur, 437
Schoepperle, Victor, 234
Scholtz, Ernst, 280
Schönerer, George von, 133
Schreyer, Lothar, 114
Schultz, Colonel Bob, 463
Schumacher, Kurt, 580–1, 593
Schuman, Robert, 586–7, 592
Schumpeter, Joseph, 153, 643
Schurman, Jacob Gould, 193
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 352–3
Schwarzkopf, General Norman, 772
science, 775; biology, 777–80; electronics, 780–1
Scobie, General Sir R.M., 434, 610
Scope, John T., 208
Scott, J. Robertson, 163
SD
(Sicherheitsdienst)
, 287, 297
Second World War: steps to, 341, 350–62; early German success, 363–6; collapse of France, 364–6; British determination to fight on, 366–71; Mediterranean
Second World War
(contd)
campaign, 369, 410; mass bombing, 369–70, 402–5, 424; American aid, 370–1; Russian campaign, 372–80, 382–7; Pacific War, 387, 391–7, 400, 410, 422–6; technology and economy, 398–410; ballistic missiles, 405–6; atomic bomb, 406–10, 424—7; turning point, 410; peace offers, 410–11; conclusion, 411–13; war crimes, 413–22, 427–31
secret police: Chinese, 199; German, 284, 286, 290, 297, 301, 303, 346, 353, 373;
Russian, 67–71, 78, 80, 91, 265, 266, 272, 273, 274, 280, 301, 675, 676, 679
secret societies, 183–4, 191
secularization, 700–1
Securities and Exchange Act (US, 1934), 255
Sedition Act (US, 1918), 17, 204
Seeckt, General Hans von, 124
Segura, Archbishop Pedro, 326
Seiyukai party, 183
Seldte, Franz, 291
self-determination: as war aim, 21–2, 23, 36–7, 41–2; Afro-Asian, 511–43; Algerian, 495–505; Indian, 469–70, 473—4; Jews and, 128; Leninism and, 74–5, 76–8
Senegal, 507, 509, 531, 541, 542
Senghor, Leopold, 150
Separate Representation of Voters Act (South Africa, 1951), 522
Serbsky Institute, 681
Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Jacques, 693
Seton-Watson, R.W., 21, 40
Severing, Carl, 123
Seville, 328
Shackleton, Sir Daivd 74
Shanghai, 195, 196, 197, 448; commune, 560, 563–4
Shantung, 45, 187, 195, 202
shareholding, 744–5
Sharpeville shooting, 516, 521
Shastri, Lai Bahadur, 568
Shaw, George Bernard, 165–6, 275–6, 306, 348, 349
Shchadenko, E.A., 383
Shelepin, Alexander, 676
Sheppard, Rev. ‘Dick’, 350
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 16
Sherriff, R.C., 163
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 767
Shevchenko, Arkady, 689
Shigeru, Yoshida, 731
Shinto, 180–1, 184, 188, 312
Shinwell, Emanuel, 439
Shmidt, General Dmitry, 301
Shostakovich, Dmitry, 261, 262, 453
show-trials, 274, 307, 679
Shukairy, Ahmed, 666
Shumilin, S.G., 267
Siam railway, 428
Siegel, Benjamin, 212
Siegfried, André, 226
Sierra Leone, 518
Sihanouk, Norodom, 477
Silesia, 26, 106
Silvermaster, Nathan Gregory, 458
Silvestre, Marie, 167
Simmons, William, 203
Simon of Wythenshawe, Lord, 604
Simon, Sir John, 297, 346
Sinclair, Upton, 226, 252
Singapore, 175, 309, 310, 386, 395–6, 468, 729–30, 735–6
Singer, Kurt, 178
Sinkiang, 448
Sino-Japanese war, 288, 315–18, 352
Sirica, Judge John, 651
Sitwell, Osbert, 171
Six-Day War, 666, 684
Skelton, O.D., 174
Skoblin, General, 301
slave-trade, in colonialism, 519–20
Smersh, 383
Smilie, ‘Bob’, 334
Smith, Adam, 151
Smith, Al, 214, 251
Smith Earl, 621
Smith, Jess, 217
Smith Act (US, 1940), 457
Smoot-Hawley Act (1930), 232, 246, 280.
310
Smuts, Jan, 43–4, 174, 520–2, 252
Snezhnevsky, Professor Andrei, 682
Snow, C.P., 641
Snyder, General Howard, 463
Soares, Dr Mario, 745–6
Sobell, Morton, 458
Sobibor, 415
Social Democrats, Danish, 604
Social Democrats, Finnish, 604
Social Democrats, German, 93, 94, 108, 109, 110, 122–4, 125, 128, 135, 278, 279, 282, 283, 286, 322; SPD, 580–1, 582, 583, 584
Social Democrats, Italian, 579
Social Democrats, Norwegian, 604
Social Democrats, Russian, 52, 53, 79, 80,96
Social Democrats, Swedish, 604
Social Democrats, Swiss, 605–6
social engineering, 94, 130, 159–60, 212, 776–7, 783–4; collectivization, 92–3, 261, 267–72, 287, 338–9, 380–2; colonialism and, 519–20, 521–4; extermination of Jews, 130, 133, 382, 413–22, 482; Afghanistan, 717–20; China, 548, 550; Indo-China, 654–7; Iran, 710–13; Romania, 761
‘social market’, 746
Social Revolutionaries, 62, 64, 71, 72, 79, Social Revolutionaries,
(condt)
681
social sciences, 775–7, 779
social welfare, 604, 605, 638–40
Socialist Party, American, 213, 252
Socialist Party, Austrian, 323
Socialist Party, French, 346, 588, 589
Socialist Party, Italian, 57, 95, 97–8,
99
,
579
Socialist Party, Spanish (PSOE), 322–4, 333
SOGAT ‘82, 743-4
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (US, 1936), 255
Soil Erosion Act (US, 1935), 255
‘Solidarity’, 702
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 70, 275, 304, 431, 677, 679
Somalia, 542
Somoza, Anastasia, 673
Soong, T.V., 193, 199
Soper, Rev. Donald, 350
Sorel, Albert, 597
Sorel, Georges, 54–5, 56
Sorge, Richard, 315, 372, 387
Sotelo, Calvo, 326
Soule, George, 248
Soustelle, Jacques, 498–9
South Africa, 43–4, 542, 690; land apportionment, 159; apartheid, 520, 521–4, 526, 728–9; economy, 525; black nationalism, 525–6; as nuclear power, 686, 687
Southern Rhodesia, 159
Soveit-German Frontier and Friendship Treaty !1939), 361
Soviet Russia -
see
Russia
Soviets, 62, 63, 64, 77
Sovnarkom (Council of People’s Commissars), 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 91
Spaak, Paul-Henri, 515
space programmes, 629–30, 698
Spain, 154; colonialism, 154; internal Socialist Party strife, 322–3, 325–6; agricultural crisis, 323; Popular Front, 323–6; army
putsch
, 326, 333; civil war -
see
Spanish Civil War; Franco’s purges, 339; neutrality in Second World War, 366; economic and political reform, 608–10; return to monarchy, 608, 609, 610; new constitution, 609–10; population, 723; economy, 746
Spanish Civil War, 321–2, 352; Catholic Church and, 326–7; atrocities, 327–8, 334–6; foreign intervention, 328–30, 332; reasons for nationalist victory, 330–2; Communist take-over, 332–4, 336; civil war among Left, 333–4; Western intellectuals’ concern, 336–8; ending of, 338; casualties, 339
Spartacists, 95, 122
Speer, Albert, 363, 403, 405
Spencer, Howland, 258
Spender, Stephen, 337–8
Spengler, Oswald, 12, 126, 279, 306
Spiridonova, Maria, 681
Sputnik I, 629
SRC (State Research Centre, Uganda), 535
ss
(Schutzstaffel)
, 286, 287–8, 290, 296, 297, 414, 416, 687
ss-20 rockets, 753
Stable Money League, 235
Staël, Madame de, 597
‘stagflation’, 739
Stalin, Josef, 49, 130, 321, 348, 420, 456, 549, 710; and Revolution, 50, 59, 63; Commissar for Nationalities, 76, 77, 78; Commissar for State Control, 83–4; building up of personal power, 83–4, 262; General Secretary of Party, 84, 261; breach with Lenin, 87–8; China policy, 194, 196, 198, 316, 443, 446, 448, 450; autocracy as Lenin’s successor, 261–2; violence and desire for revenge, 261, 262, 413; as Hitler’s exemplar, 261, 272, 296, 413; elimination of rivals, 262–6, 268, 299–300, 373; opportunism, 263; belief in ‘revolution in one country’, 263; rewriting of history, 265; show-trials, 266–7; cult of personality, 267–72; policy of terror, 271, 274–5, 296, 299–308, 335, 373, 380, 383–4, 412, 419, 455, 456; creation of personal secret police, 273; Western tributes to, 276–7, 545; purge of party and army, 334, 352, 412; purge of party and army, 300–4, 334, 352, 412; and Spanish Civil War, 332–3, 338; pact with Hitler, 359–61, 373, 376; as Hitler’s military ally, 364; territorial gains, 364, 373; despair at German invasion, 372; and Great Patriotic War, 382–6, 410; private army 384; Western aid to, 384–6, 404; pose as moderate, 386; offer to negotiate with Hitler, 410; Hitler’s admiration for, 411; and German war-guilt, 421; last-minute declaration of war on Japan, 425, 430; forcing of Russian nationals’ return, 430–1; his deluding of Roosevelt, 432–6; demands in Eastern Europe, 434, 440, 441; and Cold War, 435, 437–8, 440, 441, 452; failure of Yugoslav policy, 449; and Korean War, 450, 451; break with China, 451; and Iron Curtain, 452; hatred of ‘Westerners’ and intellectuals, 452–4; self-apotheosis, 454; anti-Semitism, 454–6; death, 456
Stalingrad, 379
Stalinism, 277, 278; Western intellectuals’ defence of, 275–7, 306–7; in Spanish Civil War, 336; repudiation of, 549
Stamboliski, Alexander, 102
Stanley, Oliver, 354
Stapel, Wilhelm, 129
‘Star Wars’, 754
Stark, Admiral Harold, 391
Stashevsky, Arthur, 333, 335
state, 14–18; Communist Party control of, 80–1, 89; De Gaulle’s view of, 594–5; in Iran, 712–13; unimportant, 738; ‘enabling’, 746; loss of faith in, 783–4 state capitalism, 90, 178
Stavisky scandal, 146
Steffens, Lincoln, 88, 103, 229, 252, 260, 306
Steinbeck, John, 247
Stenhardt, Laurence, 432, 440
Stern Fritz, 32, 644
Stern Gang, 482
Sternberg, Joseph von, 113
Sternheim, Carl, 113, 116
Stettinius, Edward, 458
Stevenson, Adlai, 257, 475
Stimson, Henry, 249
stock-exchange speculation, 231, 234, 239, 240
Stone, Ellery, 437
Strachey, John, 260, 261
Strachey, Lytton, 29, 167–9, 170, 171, 207, 347, 350
Strachey, St Loe, 168
Straight, Michael Whitney, 172
Strasser, Gregor, 278, 298
Strasser, Otto, 293
Straus, Oscar, 242
Strauss, Richard, 112, 113
Stravinsky, Igor, 8, 9, 10, 114
Stresa Front, 319, 320, 351
Stresemann, Gustav, 135, 279–80
Strong, Anna Louise, 275, 276
Strong, Benjamin, 235–6, 237, 238, 239, 280
‘Strong Reservationists’, 32
Structuralism, 695–6
Stuart, John, 250
student violence, 127, 556, 557, 620, 643–4
Sturzo, Don Luigi, 578
Suarez, Adolfo, 609, 610
Sudan, 541, 542, 707, 727
Suez Canal, 320, 321, 374, 488, 667, 668; crisis (1956), 463, 490–5, 500
Sugiyama, General Hajime, 388, 395
Suid-Afrikaanse Bond vir Rassestudie
, 522
Sukarno, Achmad, 477–80, 488, 513
Sultan-Galiyev, Mirzo, 264
Sun Chuang-fang, Marshal, 195
Sun Yat-sen, 191, 192–4, 198, 201
Suñer, Ramón Serrano, 331, 339
Sung Chi-yuen, 316
super-conductors, 781
Suppression of Communism Act (South Africa, 1950), 523
Surrealism, 9
Suslov, Michael, 676
Suyin, Han, 545
Suzuki, Admiral Kantaro,’314, 426
Sverdlov, Y.M., 72
Swaziland, 542
Sweden, 361, 373; economy, 604, 605
Sweezy, Paul, 628
Swinnerton, Frank, 170
Switzerland, 605–6, 732
Swope, Gerard, 16, 248
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), 21, 148
syndicalism, 55, 96, 97, 191
Syria, 148, 485, 666, 709–10, 727, 772
Szechuan province, 201
Szilard, Leo, 407
Tacitus, 119, 241
Taft, Howard, 258
Taft, Robert, 461, 464
Taiwan (Formosa), 187, 446, 448, 729–30, 735, 736
Takahashi, Viscount Korekiyo, 185
Tanaka, Baron Gi-ichi, 183
Tanner, Jack, 583
Tanu Youth League, 528, 530
Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), 43, 44, 514, 517, 526, 528–9, 537, 541, 542, 727
Taraki, Mur Muhammad, 718, 719
Taranto, 369
Tarawa Atoll, 423
Taris, Valery, 681
Tata, J. N., 157
Tauber, Richard, 116
Taylor, General Maxwell, 633–4
Teheran Conference (1943), 433
Teitgen, Paul, 500
Teller, Edward, 407
Temple, William, Archbishop, 165, 349
Ten Year Rule’, 174, 310
Teng Hsaio-ping, 555, 556, 562, 563, 565–6
Teresa, Mother, 574
terror, political use of, 66–71, 85, 98–9, 123, 184–5, 200–1, 262–3, 266–7, 271, 274–5, 286–9, 296–300, 326–8, 497–500, 503–5, 531, 532–7, 654–7, 675, 680–3, 687–9
terror-bombing, 335–6, 370, 403–5, 424–7
terrorism: international growth of, 687–9; Arab, 481; Jewish, 482–4; OMS, 503–4; in 1980s, 715–16, 752
Teschen, 39, 355