Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Czech police were ready to arrest him on phony charges, wrote: "Even the official sources of information had dried up." To get what news he could, Schmidt had to rely on "visits after dark, meetings on street corners, anonymous telephone calls, letters shoved under doors." Before the Czech Communist coup in February 1948, said he, there were 25 to 30 Western correspondents in Prague. Now after the Oatis trial (see above) and a campaign of terrorizing correspondents, there is not a single...
Army v. Navy. Unification of the armed services has made even less progress in Siam than in the U.S. In the two decades since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, political control has oscillated violently between the champions of either its army or its navy. The last successful Siamese coup in 1947 jolted navy-backed Premier Pridhi Banomyong, leader of Siam's pro-allied underground during World War II, out of power, and supplanted him with Army Man Phibun, a wartime Japanese collaborationist who is now an ardent friend of the West. Last week, with Phibun held prisoner...
...navy had been blasted from its last stronghold. Some navy men on the west side changed hastily into civilian clothes and were shot trying to escape. As dawn broke, word spread through the city that all was over, that Phibun was safe and still top man. Unlike most Siamese coups (there have been six since 1932), in which practically nobody gets hurt, last week's battling piled up a casualty list well into the hundreds. Like most Siamese squalls, it was a private fight, apparently unconnected with the worldwide struggle between East and West. Foreigners, who feel that Siam...
Tito was to invade Hungary, and Grösz would become regent, paving the way for a restoration of Austrian Pretender Otto of Habsburg. Grösz was to prepare for this coup by organizing resistance groups inside Hungary, including the boy scouts. The U.S. would finance the whole affair. Once in power, Grösz would revoke Communist land reforms, return the big landowners and capitalists to power...
...lowest ebb, Chou's smooth talk and persuasive manner captured a fighting force of 150,000 men right out of the Nationalist fold. This was the army of the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Chou converted thoroughly to the Communist cause. In a daring coup, the Young Marshal kidnaped Chiang Kaishek, hoping thereby to put a stop to the fighting. Chiang's eventual release, engineered with typical tact by Chou on orders from Moscow, resulted in one more marriage of convenience between the Nationalists and Communists in their common fight against Japan, gave the Communists a valuable...