Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War I broke Czarist power, brought about the 1917 short-lived Kerensky government and the Bolshevik coup d'etat. Stalin got out of Siberia, but took small part in these momentous events. U.S. Journalist John Reed did not even mention him in Ten Days That Shook the World. But Stalin, the Inside Man, emerged as one of the seven members of the party's political bureau and was appointed Commissar of Nationalities. Joked Lenin: "No intelligence is needed, that is why we've put Stalin there...
...film burlesque of Olivier's Hamlet. The man, who identified himself as "Mister Smith," roving salesman of bathroom supplies, eagerly accepted the offer, promised to go to work as soon as he had sold his supply of basins. The producer happily spread the news of his coup in Rome's movie circles, then read in the next day's paper that his discovery was actually Olivier himself passing through Rome to make a new movie in Ceylon...
Communist generosity towards Jewry began years ago when the Party grated religious freedom. Then Hitler's slaughter offered Stalin a perfect opportunity to show his golden heart and pull a coup on Breat Britain and the United States in the process. By offering the province of Birobijan as a Jewish national homeland, while the UN was still fighting over who would get Palestine, Stalin hoped to alienate the large remnant of Europe's Jews from the Western world. Thousands did go to Birobijan, a vast expanse of tundra whose only abundant natural resource is snow. They have not been heard...
...this changed abruptly with last July's military coup, which resulted in Farouk's exile. General Mohammed Naguib showed himself to be just as sensitive to criticism as his predecessor, but less determined to censor criticism from abroad. After Naguib became a cover subject himself (TIME, Sept. 8), Correspondent Dave Richardson brought him a copy of the story. Entitled "A Good Man," the story told of the start of Naguib's rise to power...
Almost by default. Chaves has become boss of one of the Americas' most complete dictatorships. After the presidency had changed hands four times in a year, Chaves, a self-educated lawyer and lifelong politico, engineered a coup that put bumbling Dr. Felipe Molas López, a 50-year-old dentist, in power in 1949. But even Don Federico could not stand the dentist long; in another coup, he installed himself as President. That was enough coups, he decided; next year he had himself elected...