Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Former officers of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament yesterday denounced vigorously the motives and tactics of the new Council Against Appeasement, which overthrew the Study Committee in a "coup" Wednesday night...
...what the club's president called "an amusingly engineered coup," the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Study Disarmament was replaced last night by a Council Against Appeasement. Among the officers of the new group are the vice-President and secretary of the Harvard Young Republican Club...
Last night's "coup" was staged when study group president Dennis L. White '60 arranged to have a dozen new members admitted to full voting status. After declaring all absent study group members inactive, the new majority passed a resolution declaring that "on the basis of (Professor Henry A.) Kissinger's (Oct. 2) speech we of the Committee to Study Disarmament are resolved that disarmament should be condemned as an impractical idealistic impossibility...
...political leader. "If the initiative for turning over the government really did come from Nu, he must be rated a statesman," said one observer in Rangoon. "If not, he would still rate as a diplomatist for succeeding in keeping the word 'coup' out of announcements of this week's events...
Because I found this article so interesting, I thought it worth while pointing out one inaccuracy in it, which I am sure you too would wish to correct. Mr. Titcomb rightly comments upon the theatrical "coup" of obtaining the rights to Shaw's Pygmalion, but incorrectly assigns the credit for so doing to Mr. Jerome Kilty. Mr. Kilty, as local audiences well know, is an extremely talented and valuable member of our company, but it was Group 20's Managing-Director, Miss Alison Ridley, who was entirely responsible for obtaining the rights to the play, after six months of work...