Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exultant editorials vanished from the Axis press. While strategists debated on what Yugoslavia could do, in the event of a German attack, Washington's diplomats took stock of the power that the Lend-Lease Act enabled President Roosevelt to exercise. The U. S. had not engineered a coup in Yugoslavia. It had merely held out an incentive, there as elsewhere, to governments that followed policies compatible with its own. The first experiment had worked with terrific effect. But State Department officials were already thinking of future moves...
...fact that the Yugoslav news overshadowed the arrival of Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka in Berlin also had its importance. Last week Washington opinion was that the Yugoslav coup had tipped the scales against a Japanese move toward Singapore and the South Pacific. Said hopeful Senator George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "Japan will not make the mistake made by Italy in assuming a prompt end to the war, and a termination altogether favorable to Germany, in view of the events of the last 30 days." U. S. foreign policy was at any rate beginning to take...
...time. This would be a Blitz campaign through Blitz country, and to resist it the Yugoslavs would need modern weapons of the best, tanks, anti-tank guns and a crack Air Force. That they have aggressive Air Force personnel was indicated by the fact that last week's coup was engineered by the Air Force. Not only did Air Force Chief General Dusan Simovitch take over the Government: his blue-uniformed fliers personally commanded the tanks which supported his revolt. In an air corps general's uniform King Peter II took his regal oath...
...coup d'clat is considered the gravest diplomatic setback Germany has suffered since the war began. Jugoslavia's choice now is said to lie between complete neutrality--if that is possible--and collaboration with Britain. Even Jugoslav neutrality would afford Britain marked advantages
Fortnight ago, Jesse Jones pulled a coup that made many a banker narrow his eyes. Its chief victims were Chase National Bank, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Mercantile-Commerce Bank (St. Louis). For over two years they had been nursing a deal with the State of Arkansas for the marketing of $136,330,557 of bonds. But when it began to ripen, the bankers got worried, went to Friend Jesse and asked him to take $46,000,000 of the issue off their hands. Jones's answer: fine...