Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military coordination would come first, because the time was short and the compulsion (fear of aggressive Communism, sharpened by the coup in Czechoslovakia) was powerful. Said a Frenchman last week: "Stalin's greatest service to humanity is that he has driven Western Europe to rationalization." Some good observers thought that military cooperation, extending to virtual military fusion of The Five, would be a fact by year...
After the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, our Eastern European correspondent, Robert Low, got an urgent telegram from a United Press reporter who had sublet his apartment in Prague. It said that the landlady had canceled the lease and was threatening to repossess his furniture...
...treaty tucked Finland even more snugly into the Soviet orbit, but for the present, non-Communist Finland had managed to preserve control over its internal affairs (though a Communist Minister of the Interior ran the police). Pooh-poohing "rumors about internal unrest, attempts at a coup and disturbance at the next political elections," President Paasikivi reassured his people: "Such objectives would have no chance of success here." Finland, it seemed, was different...
...tone of the day was set by Philosopher J. B. Kozak, who taught at Ohio's Oberlin College in World War II. Said Kozak, obviously not speaking for his 17 purged colleagues: "We accept the direction taken by this great development [i.e., the Communist coup]." Then President Eduard Benes gave the university a new charter to replace the one that the Germans had destroyed, and made a pathetic little speech about freedom. Outside, in the public square, amplifiers relayed the catch in Benes' voice. There were more cops than citizens in the square...
...Great Britain, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, personal interviewers working through Elmo Roper, his overseas affiliates and, in the case of the U.S. Zone of Germany, the American Military Government, were in the middle of getting their answers to the survey questions when the Czech coup of Feb. 25 took place. Therefore, in the light of events during and since the survey was taken, the responses to some of its questions-especially in the U.S., where our survey was completed before the coup-may now be outdated. On the other hand, many of the replies...