Read Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties Online
Authors: Paul Johnson
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‘Tet Offensive’, 636, 646
Thailand, 736
Thalmann, Ernst, 282
Thatcher, Margaret, 740, 741, 742, 744–5, 748–9, 750, 752, 753, 764, 769, 770
Thaxted, 165
Third World’, 476–7, 617, 619, 670, 692–3, 727–8, 729–36
Thomas, Norman, 213, 252
Thompson, ‘Big Bill’, 210
Thorez, Maurice, 361, 588, 589
Thornburg, Max, 485
‘thought reform’, 548–9
Thurber, James, 247
Thyssens, 282
Tiananmen Square, 758–9
Tibet, 758
Tillion, Germaine, 498, 504
Tito, Marshal, 441, 448–9
Tizard, Sir Henry, 407, 467
Today
, 743
Todd, General, W.E., 448
Todt, Fritz, 294, 400
Togo, 517, 518
Tojo, General Eiki, 390, 391, 425, 428
Tokyo: mutiny (1935), 314–15, 316; air raid (1945), 424
Toller, Ernst, 112, 306
Tombalbaye, Francis, 538
Tomlinson Report (1956), 524
Tomslcy, M.P., 266
Tonkin, Gulf of, 634
Torrens, Robert, 152
Torrio, John, 210
torture, 303–4, 497–500, 661–2, 689
totalitarianism: colonialism and, 519; family- based society versus, 581; Fascist and Communist forms of, 277, 354; growth of, 14–18, 73, 78–9, 122–3, 181, 283–91, 311; predatory, 311; and terror regimes, 296–308, 383–4, 409; in African states, 528–34, 543; German, 122–3; 126–7, 133, 278–82, 284–91, 295–6; Japanese, 181–6, 313, 318, 427–8; Russian, 73, 78–94, 277
Touré, Sékou, 532
Touregs, 528
Toyama, Mitsuru, 183, 185
Trade Disputes Aas: (1906) 601, (1927) 602, (1965) 602
Trade Union Act (1913), 602
Trade Union and Labour Relations Acts (1974, 1976), 602
trade unions: American, 255; Bolshevik take- over, 90–1; British, 601–3, 74(M; German, 583–4; Japanese, 734
transport, 223–4, 540
Treblinka, 415
Treitschk, Heinrich von, 126
Tricot, Bernard, 503
Trilling, Lionel, 10, 172, 226, 307–8, 644
‘Triton’ code, 399
Trivers, Robert, 780
Trotsky, Leon, 51, 72, 83, 122, 128, 205, 262, 270; on Lenin, 52, 55; as Lenin’s principal lieutenant, 59; and Revolution, 62–3, 65; use of force and secret police, 67, 68, 87, 263; opposition to Brest-Litovsk, 72; and compulsory labour, 92, 263; ousted by Stalin, 196; a moral relativist, 263; destroyed by Stalin, 263–5, 268; murder, 265, 373; on ‘British benevolence’, 348; on Islam, 720
Truman, Harry S., 441, 647, 650; decision to use atomic bom, 424–5; at Potsdam, 436-, strong line towards Russia and Communism, 437, 438, 457; commitment to Europe, 439–40; and Korean War, 450, 451, 452; undermining of UN Security Council, 450, 689; and arms-race, 452; pro-Zionism, 484–5; use of tapes, 652
Tshombe, Moise, 515, 516–17
Tsuji, Colonel Masanobu, 393
Tsushima, 187
Tucholsky, Kurt, 115, 116, 306
Tugwell, Rexford, 257
Tuker, General Sir Francis, 473
Tukhachevsky, Marshal, 301, 375
Tulsa race riots, 38
Tumulty, Joseph, 33
Tunisia, 526, 542
Turkey, 21, 154, 179, 439; national socialism in, 95; Soviet pressure on, 438; Marshall Aid to, 440; in ‘northern tier’, 489
Tzara, Tristan, 9
U Nu, 477, 513
Uganda, 514, 517, 527, 533–7, 541, 542
ujamaa
(familyhood), 530
Ukraine, 77, 105, 722, 765–6, 767
Ulbricht, Walter, 586
Ullman, EX., 747
Ultra coding system, 399–400
Ulyanov, Alexander, 50
UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade and Development), 692
unemployment, 669; American, 246–7; British, 164, 367; German, 280, 281; Scandinavian, 604
Unger, Fritz von, 19
Union of the Democratic Centre, 609
Union Générale des Israelites de France, 420
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, origin of, 77–8
Union of the Spanish People, 609
United Founders Corporation, 239
United Nations, 520; Declaration (1942), 429; and Korean War, 450, 493; American control of, 493, 689; and Suez, 494–5, 689; and Congo, 515–16; double standard, 516, 536; and African states, 536, 538; Amin honoured by, 536, 689; commitment to military solutions, 538; withdrawal from Egypt-Israel frontier, 666; corrupt and demoralized, 684, 690; condemnation of Israel as ‘racist’, 690; condemnation of America, 690–1, 693; and Third World, 691–2; begins to function as intended, 697, 768; and Falklands War, 750; and Gulf War, 768, 770–1
United Party, South Africa, 524
United States of Europe, idea of, 599
‘universal labour service’, 91
universities, 698, 776–7
Upper Volta, 517, 518, 542
Urga, Hutuktu of, 192
Urrutia, Judge Manuel, 622, 623
Uttar Pradesh, 569
VI and V2 offensive, 405–6
Vahidi, Allameh, 713
Valentinov, N., 53
Valladolid, 328
Vallee, Rudy, 254
Van Hise, Charles, 16
Vance, Cyrus, 674
Vandenberg, Arthur, 439
‘vanguard fighters’, 55, 56, 57, 61–2, 89, 95, 96, 134, 181, 191
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 205
Varenne, Alexandre, 149
Varga, Jeno, 453
Veblen, Thorstein, 241
Veidt, Conrad, 116
Versailles Treaty (1919), 24, 29, 32, 120, 124, 140, 148, 173, 429, 525; imposed upon Germany, 26–8; US Congress refusal to
Versailles Treaty
(contd)
ratify, 34; reparations and reprisals, 36, 106, 134; attempted embodiment of principle of self-determination, 38; creation of more minorities, 38; dissatisfaction with, 95; comparative generosity to Germany, 106, 108; blamed by Germany for currency collapse, 135; disarmament clause, 139, 351, 405; ultra-nationalists’ denigration of, 146; concessions to China, 187; repudiated by Hitler, 312, 319, 320, 341, 343, 351
Verwoerd, H.F., 523
Vesenkha (Supreme Council of National Economy), 89
Vettard, Camille, 10
Vichy Government, 146, 365–6, 420, 587–8
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, 100
Vienna, 132–3; Congress of (1813), 17, 25
Vietnam, 460, 463; war, 630–7, 651, 654; Communist victory, 654; ‘unification’ of North and South, 657
Vigón, Colonel Juan, 335
Vilno, 39
violence: black, 645–6; increase in, 687–9; as moral necessity, 687; Nazi use of, 278–9, 296–306, 344; in post-colonial Africa, 537–8, 541–2; revolutionary, 55, 57, 58, 66, 78–9, 184, 200–1, 262–3; student, 127, 556, 557, 620, 643–4; against Weimar parliamentarianism, 123–5
Viollette, Maurice, 151
Volk
movement, 118
Volpi, Giuseppe, 103
Volstead Act (US, 1920), 209
Voroshilov, Marshal, 265, 300, 455
Voting Rights Act (US, 1965), 645
Waffen
ss, 287
Waite, Morrison Remick, 662
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, 151
Walden, Herwath, 114
Walesa, Lech, 702
Wallace, Henry, 213, 438
Walters, W.W., 250
Walton, E.T.S., 406
Wandervögel
, 119
Wang Hung-wen, 563–4
Wang Kwang-mei, 552, 559
Wapping, industrial dispute at, 743–4
war criminals, trial of, 428–30
war-debts, 28, 29, 35–6
war-guilt, 24, 106–9
War Powers Act (US, 1973), 653
‘war socialism’, 16, 90, 141, 277, 401
Warsaw Pact, 768
Washington D.C., 211, 250, 269
Washington Naval Treaty (1922), 188
Wassermann, Jakob, 121
Water Pollution Act (US, 1965), 661
Watergate affair, 649, 651–2, 653
Watson, James, 778
Waugh, Evelyn, 162, 362, 506, 531
Wavell, Field-Marshall Lord, 396, 473
Webb, James, 629
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 275, 276, 473, 475, 601
Webb, Sir William, 427
Weber, Max, 18, 110, 123, 128
Wedd, Nathaniel, 172
Weill, Kurt, 113
Weimar Constitution, 110–11
Weiss, Ernst, 117
Weiss, Ferdl, 132
Weizmann, Chaim, 421, 482, 484, 488
Welensky, Sir Roy, 162
‘welfare capitalism’, 225
Welles, Summer, 345, 619
Wells, H.G., 13, 148, 213, 249, 276, 349, 641, 697
Wendel, François de, 142
Werfel, Franz, 117
Westerners, German, 111–12, 125, 136, 144, 280
Westinghouse, 660
Westphalia, Peace of (1648), 17, 18
Wheeler, J.A., 407
White, Harry Dexter, 458, 659
White, William, 436
White, William Allen, 217, 218, 219
White Russians, 75–6
Whitehead, A.N., 3
Whiteman, Paul, 227
Wieland, William, 621
Wilder, Billy, 113
Wilder, Thornton, 226
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 15, 19, 104, 105, 108, 109
Wilkie, Wendell, 647
Williams, V.R., 454
Williams-Ellis, Amabel, 275
Williamson, Henry, 163
Wilson, Edmund, 215, 222, 248, 252
Wilson, Edward, 780
Wilson, Harold, 602
Wilson, Sir Henry, 45
Wilson, Woodrow, 16, 74, 204, 232, 243, 258; on collective brutality, 14; and Wilson
(contd)
American entry into war, 22–3, 460; and peacemaking, 23–34, 105, 173; his ‘Fourteen Points’, 23, 24, 27, 105; his ‘Five Particulars’, 23, 24; and League of Nations, 25, 28–9, 31–2, 33, 34, 43; fatal illness, 33–4, 205
Windsor, Duke of, 306
Winnipeg general strike (1919), 38
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 168, 699
Wohlthat, Helmuth, 358
Wolf, Friedrich, 112, 306
Wolfe, Thomas, 226, 248, 259
Wolff, Ernst, 334
Wolff, Kurt, 116
Wolff, Theodor, 116
Woltmann, Ludwig, 120
Woodin, William, 254
Woolcott, Alexander, 252
Woolf, Leonard, 167, 168, 349, 472
Woolf, Virginia, 171
Workingmen’s Party, America, 213
World Bank, 659, 735, 739
World Council of Churches, 705
World Food Conference (1974), 691
World Jewish Congress (1942), 420
World Population Conference (1974), 691
Worringer, W.R., 114
Wright, Richard, 477
Wriston, Walter, 664, 671
Writers’ Congress (Madrid, 1937), 337–8
Wu Han, 555
Wu Pei-fu, Marshal, 195
Wuhan, 560
Wurche, Ernst, 19
Wurm, Bishop, 413
Wynne-Edwards, V.C., 779
Xavier, Francis, 177
Yacef, Saadi, 499
Yagoda, G.G., 300, 301
Yalta Conference (1945), 404, 425, 429, 435, 436
Yamamoto, Count Gombei, 183
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku, 389, 393, 398
Yamashita, General Tomuyuki, 395
Yang Chang-chi, 197
Yard, General Abdul, 479
Yao Teng-shan, 558
Yarkov, Ilya, 681, 682
Yeats, W.B., 11, 306
Yeats-Brown, Major Francis, 306
Yeltsin, Boris, 766–7
Yen Fu, 197
Yen Hsi-shan, General, 195, 201
Yepishev, General Alexei, 719
Yevdokimov, Y.G., 226, 456
Yevtushenko, Y.A., 674
Yezhov, N.I., 301, 302
Yom Kippur War, 668, 684
YomeiTenno, 180
Yoshihito, Emperor of japan, 176
Youlou, Fulbert, 517
Youmans, Vincent, 227
Young, Owen, 258
Youth Movements, 18, 119
Yuan Shih-kai, General, 191
Yugoslavia, 40, 147, 373, 348; German occupation, 374; murdered Jews from, 415; Croats returned to, 431; Soviet share of, 434; expulsion from Cominform, 441; defiance of Soviet, 448–9; population trend, 723; economy, 727; break-up threatened, 762–3
Yukin, Ozaki, 183, 185
Yuzonsha society, 184
Zaire, 517, 518, 531, 539, 541, 542, 671
Zambia, 514, 526, 542; village regrouping, 530–1
Zamora, Alcalá, 325
Zangwill, Israel, 203
Zasulich, Vera, 52
Zasyadki, A.F., 550
Zhdanov, A.A., 302, 449, 455, 553, 556
Zhivkov, Todor, 760
Zhukov, Marshal G.K., 372, 384, 455, 675
Zimbabwe, 526, 542
Zimmerman, Arthur, 399
Zinoviev, G.Y., 91, 93, 262, 263, 264–5, 266, 268, 299, 300
Zionism, 121, 481–6, 522
Zniakov, Fedor, 677
Zollverein, 591
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 453
Zorin, V.A., 440
Zuckmayer, Carl, 113
Zweig, Arnold, 117, 306
Zyklon-B, 414, 415
Among the many institutions and individuals to whom I am beholden I would especially like to thank the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, which gave me hospitality as a Resident Scholar; Dr. Norman Stone, who read the manuscript and corrected many errors; my editor at Weidenfeld, Linda Osband; the copy-editor, Sally Mapstone; and my eldest son, Daniel Johnson, who also worked on the manuscript.