Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloody, so far unsuccessful campaign to capture Tunisia. The dry, matter-of-fact voice, broadcasting from London, left out many details. But, added to the fragmentary dispatches that have passed censorship (see p. 58), it told enough. If the campaign had succeeded, it would have been a military coup. "It was a slender chance which failed...
...coup there had been, but it was not the coup that was publicized. The anti-U.S. military clique had seized power in the country, using the nonexistent coup as an excuse to lock up pro-Allied leaders...
Both armored gunboats of the Paraguayan Fleet last week trained their guns on Asuncion, the capital. Police surrounded important Government buildings and communication centers. Whistles and sirens screamed. Army reinforcements arrived, mumbling about a threatened coup d'état, and arrested leaders of the strongly pro-U.S. National Republican Party, including some Army officers. A few labor leaders and Communists were packed off to jail for good measure...
With this triumph over the Fascist-minded National (Blanco) Party, acceptance of a new Constitution drafted by President Baldomir seemed a certainty. It would replace the outworn Constitution promulgated eight years ago after a coup d'état by the late President Gabriel Terra, which gave minority parties a disproportionate voice in public affairs...
Darlan was therefore an essential key in the quick conquest of North Africa since he could control both the people and the army. The use of Darlas was therefore a brilliant coup on the part of General Eisenhower, whose conduct of the campaign received many compliments in Morize's talk...