Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief statement by General Julien Claude Marie Dufieux. Inspector General of Infantry and of Schools for Officers, a Wartime protege of Marshal Petain. General Dufieux coolly announced that two months ago he received convincing evidence that the Soviet Embassy in Paris was assisting French Communists to prepare a coup d'etat which was to have seized the Government on November 16, and laid this evidence before famed General Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief of the French General Staff, in time for the plot to be nipped...
...youth of handsome features and imperial mien is Egypt's pimply-complexioned, sport-loving King Farouk. Aged only 18, His Majesty, who came to the throne in July, last week took the risky course of executing what amounted to a bloodless royal coup d'etat. By all odds the largest political party in Egypt is the Wafd, and its leader Premier El Nahas Pasha has often dramatically declaimed: "Egypt is the guardian of Oriental Democracy!" Last week Nahas Pasha emerged from the Royal Palace wailing: "I have been cast aside as Premier like an old shoe...
After three weeks' detention at Ellis Island at the French Line's expense, Mme Magdeleine La Ferrière ("Magda de Fontages") was ordered deported to France by U. S. District Court Judge Samuel Mandelbaum, who called her Paris coup de pistolet at Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun (TIME, Nov. 22) "an act of baseness, vileness or depravity." Few hours later, free under a $1,000 bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members...
...meantime Germany was able by the Rhine coup and skillful diplomatic maneuvering to form a complete blockade of France in the West. With plants able to turn out airplanes seven times faster than British or French factories they built up a force capable of humiliating the republic on their borders...
This week the Duc de Guise, bewhiskered pretender to the vanished throne of France, attempted from his Belgian exile to create an impression that what was afoot was a coup to crown him. "We have decided," royally manifestoed Guise again, as he often has before, "to reconquer the throne of our fathers! The monarchy, while protecting the Church, will not be clerical...