Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coup had been carefully planned. Two months ago, the Communists had sent two ex-Nationalist transport officials, who now served the Reds, to Hong Kong, where the airlines had their head offices. The emissaries managed to persuade most of the airlines' Chinese personnel, who were tired of continued retreat and fearful of losing their jobs, to come over to the winning side. The Reds' envoys had more trouble with American pilots, presumably won over a few with assurances of continued high pay (up to U.S. $1,000 a month for 74 hours' flying,, plus $10 an hour...
American pilots working for the airlines stumbled into the mazes of the coup. CNAC's American Vice President E. M. Allison announced that eight American pilots had gone to work for the Communists, that 37 others would remain "loyal" to the airline, regardless of ownership. Pan American Airways Corp., which owns 20% of CNAC's stock (the Nationalist government owns the other 80%), declared itself neutral, asserted that it had no voice in CNAC's policy or politics...
Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...
...hunger for uncensored information behind the Iron Curtain. It reports how a small courageous group of Czechs still manages to get news from the outside world, despite the ban which was imposed on TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications 18 months ago at the time of the Communist coup...
...away the workings of the U.S. atomic detection network; it might be better if the Russians did not know the U.S. knew. But no one wanted to let the Russians make a triumphant announcement at a moment of their own choosing, when the news might become a massive propaganda coup. President Truman decided to announce the news immediately...