Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most odious reactionaries ordered this appointment!" stormed Le Populaire (Socialist). "At no moment in the history of the Third Republic, not even at the time of the Dreyfus affair, has any general so hostile to the Republic been elevated to this post. . . . General Weygand is ready for a coup d'etat at the head of the Army...
Perhaps if peace had not been made with Chile, the Peruvian revolution (TIME, Sept. 1) would have not occurred. Officers of the Peruvian army, having for the first time in their lives no foreign foe to worry about, staged a coup and deposed President Augusto Bernardino Leguia, famed "Bantam Roosevelt of Peru...
...cousin not of King Alfonso but of Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain is George V. Last week His Britannic Majesty's Government abruptly deported from Liverpool two Spanish airmen-revolutionists: Captain Antonio Rexach and Lieut. Joaquin Collar. Both escaped from Spain when the attempted coup d'etat of Major Ramon Franco, "The Spanish Lindbergh," failed (TIME...
Fearful lest other Spanish airmen try a coup, King Alfonso last week disbanded the entire Royal Air Force for 30 days, decreed that when reorganized next month it will be merely a division of the regular army...
...wrong horse. Worst of all, having recognized Acting President Palma, it was duty-bound not to recognize Acting President Orellana. In 1923 Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes endorsed a Central American agreement which mutually barred recognition of any Central American government which came into existence through a coup d'etat. Only obvious way out of the difficulty was for President Chacon to recover from his hemorrhage, but Acting President Orellana intimated last week that even in this unlikely case he was not at all sure that he felt like resigning...