Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this battle's most serious skirmishes in Latin America went against the Nazis. The flare-up between Peru and Ecuador appeared to be under control, as both sides announced that they were willing to cease hostilities and arbitrate. The Bolivian Government mopped up the busted fragments of the coup planned by Naziphile Major Elias Belmonte (TIME, July...
That the Bolivian coup had been planned by the Nazis, none doubted. While Berlin grumbled unconvincingly about "U.S. aggression," Bolivia's President, General Enrique Peňaranda, released a letter to the newspapers. It had been mailed on June 9 in Berlin by Major Belmonte, Bolivian Air Attache in Germany, to the German Minister at La Paz, Ernst Wendler. According to President Peňaranda, it had been intercepted by "the intelligence service of a foreign power fighting against Germany" and turned over...
Paraguay, this week, without specific reference to the Bolivian coup, decreed the death penalty for anyone "inducing a foreign state to declare war on Paraguay or conspiring for the same end," heavy prison sentences for anyone trying "to change the Constitution by violent means...
Elected President in March, General Peñaranda, no politician, has done his best to steer his brawling country toward democracy and an amiable relationship with the U.S. His biggest coup to date was to negotiate a contract with the U.S. for Bolivia's full output of tungsten, despite the fact that Japan at first made a higher...
...Nazis seemed last week to be planning an extraordinary new radio coup. Fortnight ago they released tall, bald, bespectacled Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse from an internment camp at Tost, ensconced him at Government expense in a suite in Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon, gave him permission to come and go as he pleased within the confines of the Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid...