Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, at week's end, came the report that the Finnish coup was all but accomplished...
...Signal. What could the U.S. do about Czechoslovakia? It joined France and Britain in condemning the coup. As for the crisis in Finland, at week's end Washington was officially silent...
...Rome, Ambassador James C. Dunn tried to make the best case he could for U.S. democracy. He pointed to U.S. generosity with money and supplies. But Washington gave no public sign that it would back the De Gasperi government up to the hilt against any attempted Communist coup. And yet a victory for Communism in Italy would mean that the cold war, which the U.S. once thought it was winning, would get uncomfortably warm...
...week's end Henry Wallace went to Minneapolis, where he told an audience that the Truman Doctrine would never have been allowed, and that the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia might not have happened, if he had been President...
Since the Communist coup, night the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Washington nor the State Department has given any indication of what the President's situation might...