Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Prague's Communists busily consolidated their coup. New Communist Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Klementis received resignations from Czechoslovak diplomats in Washington, Ottawa, The Hague. Over transatlantic telephone, he called Prague's resigned U.S. Ambassador Juraj Slavik* "a characterless betrayer of your country," and promptly hustled through a new set of appointments...
Jaffa's statement agreed with the staff committee's censure of the IUS for not protesting the suppression of student demonstrations in Prague at the time of the Communist coup, but questioned the right of the group to make such a move...
...Faculty should request that the reasons for this dissolution be announced. And unless the announcement is convincing, they should initiate an investigation of the Administration's decision. No such major policy ought to be determined and settled upon under conditions ever remotely smacking of a political intra-departmental coup d'etat...
...gesture. Indeed, its preliminary success probably forced the Kremlin strategists to move in Czechoslovakia and Finland while the moving was still easy. The Marshall Plan was, however, an incomplete gesture. Greece won't be won by canned pineapples nor China by made-in-Washington land reforms. The Czech coup might not have been tried if the U.S. had not looked helpless in Greece, helpless in China, and silly -or worse-in Palestine...
...father's democratic son. He talked wittily and well of "bridges" between Communism and democracy. When the hour came last week, Jan Masaryk was the bridge: he lay down and the Communists walked over him. He stayed in his job as Foreign Minister after the coup. He had a cold, and refused to talk to newsmen on the telephone. ("His voice is very bad," said a secretary...