Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting as a court-martial in Tokyo since July 25. Their thankless job was to mete out justice to eleven Army cadets, confessed conspirators in the assassination of "Pacifist" Premier Ki Inukai (TIME, May 23, 1932). Not only for this are the cadets national heroes. They also plotted a coup to tear up the Japanese constitution, oust "grafting politicians" and restore "direct Imperial rule." Clearly the judges, who might themselves be assassinated should their sentence prove too harsh, faced a delicate predicament. Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with relief to the August...
...particular newspapermen who conceived and executed yesterday's coup are beyond consure. No decent words ill them. The usual human instructs of decency, and the decent symbols by which they are expressed, have thus lost meaning and significance. The Transcript says, transparently enough: "The picture men were asked by Charles Whitesido...to limit themselves to pictures of young Roosevelt in a group ...."This agreement they inexcusably violated, and then turned their rebuff into copy quite as inexcusable. The temper of a nation which demands from its newspapers photographs of women in the electric chair presents a curious problem in psychology...
...justified? The Great War had been cruel. Enough of that Solemly Oliver declares that he has bought an estate in Devonshire so that they can retire to respectability. Helen has consented of marry him: life is once again roseate. But Bascom, the uncurable dope-flend has tried a coup of his own; he has stolen a diamond necklace. Oliver attempts to return it and fails. Murder, pursuit by an army plane over the channel, a suicide, an other death perjury and an orthodox Hollywood ending with an unusually humorous last line by Mrs. Ropkins; it is wholesome unadulterated melodrama...
...Senate, wrote last week in the Agence Economique et Financière: "It is useless to temporize or quibble; Austria must remain outside Germany or there will be a European conflict-and what a conflict!-within a short time. . . . Will the Nazis take Salzburg by force? And if this coup takes place, however it may happen, will Europe let it occur without acting?" In Vienna last week Chancellor Dollfuss, like a chick trying to round up a brood of flustered hens, was trying desperately to get together a political consolidation to fight Naziism. President Wilhelm Miklas had shown him last...
...again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance to Premier Mussolini that such propaganda would cease (TIME, Aug. 21); and 3) the general question of whether Italy will support Chancellor Dollfuss in his efforts to prevent a Nazi coup and union of Austria with Germany. Returning to shore, Rower Dollfuss and Steersman Mussolini were cheered good-humoredly by hundreds of Italian bathers on the beach...