Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just charges and confessions in matching pairs. Confessions. Radek last week confessed that he helped assassinate in Leningrad two years ago Stalin's famed "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.), adding: "We decided to kill enough leaders from Stalin down to bring about a coup."Piatakov and Radek joined in confessing they sabotaged the work of Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze, so that Heavy Industry has fallen behind the Soviet Plan. Piatakov, extending his confession into what became a lecture, told of alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof Field, being supplied with...
...full of florid gestures, plots and counterplots, saved from melodramatic banality only by its insistence on the eternal antithesis between power and justice. The liberal Crown Prince Rudolph schemes to seize the throne from Franz-Joseph, his father, in order to relieve the oppressed people, but even as his coup d'etat succeeds he realizes that the maintenance of power can lead only to more bloodshed, greater oppression. Tormented by his inability to change the very nature of things, he turns for consolation to his mistress, the Baroness Vetsera, only to find that she too is tainted with the intrigue...
...high-jacked the kidnapping. Oilman Fitch confirmed that the city of Weinan, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case, had been wiped out and said he thought 400 Chinese in Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted in and around Sian during the purge which followed the coup." A further and persistent report was that the Dictator, while technically the prisoner of kidnappers, had held long and earnest parleys in Sian with the celebrated Chinese Communist, General Cho Wen-lai, "Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Armies...
...loyalist possessions he interviewed Government officials, militiamen, frightened middle-class intellectuals, anarchists, officers and police officials, emerging convinced that stories of Red atrocities have been wildly exaggerated, that the civil war was the result of fascist provocation, that no working-class revolution threatened the Spanish Republic before the attempted coup d'etat of General Franco on July 18. The author writes so much about the wretched reporting of Spanish politics and events that it sometimes is difficult to say whether he is covering the war or writing a critique of British journalism. He ends his book with an account...
...Roger Williams had sold his trading house in Narragansett, which earned him ?100 annually, to raise money for a trip to England, where he wrote an influential pamphlet, served Cromwell, was rewarded with a charter that enabled him to come home and depose wealthy Rhode Island colonists planning a coup d'etat. After the Restoration, Rhode Island promptly hailed the King, raised ?200 to send an emissary to negotiate a new charter. This unfortunate, self-sacrificing man, Dr. John Clark, remained in England 13 years, finally got the charter almost to his own surprise...