Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, TIME-LIFE International publisher of our overseas editions, received the following urgent message from a subscription donor in Canada...
...response to this prophetic warning, TLI struck the name from its list and began its own investigation of the hazards of sending further copies to its Czechoslovakian subscribers. Meanwhile, the Communists brought off their coup and, as you may have read in your newspapers, promptly banned TIME, LIFE and 25 other foreign publications on grounds of "malicious reporting...
Having spilled his political news, Henry went on talking, so swiftly that reporters had difficulty in following him. They got enough to make headlines out of one sensational charge: that Laurence Steinhardt, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, had provoked Communist-action there by lending himself to a "rightist coup." When the reporters pressed him for details, Wallace suddenly remembered, that he "had to catch a train...
...Roof Leaking? Until the U.S. coup, Italy last week did not look like the scene of a historic battle. The Communists briefly flexed their muscles with a 24-hour typographers' strike against the country's newspapers. Otherwise, the campaign was ominously quiet...
...Cobb and his fellow-hecklers had not been so absorbed in creating the kind of incident on which Communist propagandists thrive, he might have been able to hear the speakers and would thus have been saved from slanderous error. The Czech coup served as final proof that the Communists will destroy civil liberties even in a nation with democratic traditions; Saturday's meeting demonstrated that Communists are not by any means the only enemies of these liberties. In this at least, Mr. Cobb et al are their spiritual allies. Edgar M. Rubin...