Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parachute. Both the Russians and British are said to have dropped small amounts. In recent months Mihailovich has begged over the radio for all he can get. Last fortnight London reported that 24 Axis divisions (Germans, Hungarians and Bulgarians) had been sent into the Sumadija mountains to deliver the coup de grace...
...that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that those which escaped had gone on into China. If this was true, and if the Jap was right in saying that three U.S. aircraft carriers had launched them in Japanese waters, then the U.S. had pulled a coup indeed. B-25s (built for the Army) might be able to take off from carrier decks. They could not return - but they would be welcome indeed in China...
Petain intimates claim that in December 1940 Laval planned a coup d'etat which would have detained Petain in Versailles and shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration...
Carleton's shaggy-browed, popular President Donald John Cowling had pulled a palpable coup. With collegians throughout the nation eager to get into the air corps, President Cowling had got the Army, Navy and Marines to collaborate in training fledgling flyers on his campus while they continue their college education. Some 300 of Carleton's 450 men students will be enlisted in the corps, known as CCOC (Carleton College Officers Corps). Most of them will enlist as reservists in the Navy. Carleton promptly christened the outfit "The Flying Carls...
...TIME, April 6). There were the same rumors that Laval brought Adolf Hitler's demands and threats, insisted that the Riom trials be stopped.* Diplomatic circles also heard that Laval appealed to Pétain's friendship by telling him, truly or falsely, that an arch-collaborationist coup d'état was being planned in Paris. Afterward Laval reminded the press that it was he who had instigated French collaboration with Germany and announced that his talks with Pétain had ended. These remarks may have meant that Laval had been warded...