Word: coups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monarchists succeeded in making a coup d'état they could in all probability succeed in gathering a not inconsiderable majority together in the Reichstag. The German People's Party represents the old Conservatives, Junkers and Pan-Germans - all avowedly monarchical factions. The Center Party is composed of Catholics and could be relied upon to support a monarchical movement, if not before success, then certainly after it. The German People's Party are liberals and not adverse to a limited monarchy. These parties alone produce 135 seats in the Reichstag. The Socialists, consisting of the old Majority...
...peril. A putsch, not dissimilar from the Kapp Putsch of 1920, is an imminent possibility. The object of such a movement would be primarily to prevent the country falling into the hands of Communists, who have been engineering a plot to seize the Government for some time. If the coup d'état were successful, a Fascist dictatorship would be established, followed, no doubt, by the reëstablishment of the Monarchy...
...Communist organ Die Rote Fahn published an article prophesying a Nationalist coup, accompanied by terrorism hitherto unknown. The paper advocated killing every fifth Fascist...
Mussolini's dictatorial powers expire on December 31; unless he can, by his " electoral reform" cement his power over his Party before elections, he will either be dragged by his followers into some foolish coup d'état, or will find his Party outvoted in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and his position intolerable...
...Tuchun of the Yangtzi Valley. Owes all his power to steel and smoke. He was the military sponsor of the Peking Government. It is suggested that General Wu has been bought off by Marshal Tsao-Kun, which would explain his non-partisan attitude in the recent militarist coup in Peking...