Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia Germany tried both kidnapping and amputation. General Dusan Simovitch's coup having foiled the kidnapping plot, last week the Croat leader, old Dr. Vladimir Matchek, joined Premier Simovitch's Cabinet as Vice Premier, thereby ending Germany's hope of amputating Croatia. Two days later, in Moscow, the Yugoslav Minister, Milan Gavrilovitch, and Russia's Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov signed a treaty of "nonaggression and friendship" while Joseph Stalin looked on, beaming broadly...
Whether Count Teleki had committed suicide in despair-perhaps even to arouse his people-because he believed Hungary was about to be completely engulfed by Hitler, or whether he had been killed by the Gestapo lest he initiate an anti-Axis coup d'état like that which took place in Belgrade last fortnight, he died because his policy was fatal. The "tightrope Premier," who had tried to serve Hungary's interests by cooperating with Germany, was not able to make...
...Problem. While the people sang, General Simovitch worked. Whether Yugoslavia could continue to exist as one nation was in doubt, and that was a risk the tall, grave-eyed General took when he staged his coup. To be Foreign Minister of his Government he picked an elder statesman who had been 17 years out of politics, 65-year-old Momtchilo Nintchitch...
...Victory. Many statesmen had played their parts in Belgrade's coup d'etat. Winston Churchill had done much by risking an expeditionary force in Greece while Yugoslavia wavered. "Early this morning Yugoslavia found her soul," said Winston Churchill fervently. The U. S. had also played a part, by passing the Lend-Lease Act and promising aid to Britain's allies, and President Roosevelt made this promise stick in a message of congratulation to King Peter. Russia had helped, by pledging neutrality to Turkey if Turkey should be attacked, thereby suggesting to Turkey the advisability of a treaty...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...