Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anibal Rios, who had been third vice president under totalitarian-minded President Arnulfo Arias, had refused to resign from the office when another coup less than two months earlier replaced playboy Arias with pro-U.S. President de la Guardia (TIME...
...Tinto's retirement to his bed (TIME, Nov. 17, et seq.) had been the signal for an enfilading attack on the Government. Leftists charged that Rightists and Nazi sympathizers were conspiring to seize power. Rightists declared that Leftists were planning a palace coup. The Radicals and Socialists, chief parties of the Popular Front, were suspicious of each other...
Surveying the economic prospects, Goldston predicted as an aftermath to war expansion a revolutionary dictatorship by the workers, a coup by the ruling classes, or a continuation of expansion through imperialism with limited freedom. Boyden claimed that, although civil liberties might be curtailed by the war a victory by the fascist powers would destroy them completely...
...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
Later he fled to Syria, from Syria to Bagdad, capital of Iraq. After participating in the Iraqi coup this spring, he escaped to Iran. When British and Russians occupied that country the Grand Mufti disappeared...