Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There remains the question whether the Germans will try a limited coup on the flanks of the main Western Front for the advancement of their strategic position. Neither Belgium nor Switzerland offers a very tempting target. The water lines in the one case, the mountain ranges in the other, form a formidable obstacle to rapid penetration, while Allied reinforcement to either if attacked would be comparatively easy. An incomplete success might bring more complications than advantages to the invader...
...continued to exist, it had veered decidedly to the Right, and the Confederation of Chilean Workers issued a manifesto declaring that in the situation they saw the "thumbprints of Alessandri." The "Lion of Tarapacá" is living quietly in Santiago, at 71 still hale for a comeback, crisis or coup...
...began the former Kaiser's position has been ticklish. He is a good German, gets his income from Germany and has four sons and eleven grandsons in the German Army. But an Allied victory might restore monarchy to what the peace treaty left of Germany. A monarchist coup in Germany and a subsequent deal with the Allies certainly would. Gossip in The Hague has it that Princess Hermine's estate in Silesia is the centre of a monarchist movement...
...also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim went to Vaasa. Late in January the Social Democrats seized the government, proclaimed Finland a Socialist Workers Republic. Instead of the coup d'état they had planned, they got a civil war. A few White members of the Senate escaped from Helsinki to Vaasa, proclaimed themselves the legal government of Finland, appointed Mannerheim Commander in Chief...
...stalwarts stole 1,084,000 rounds of ammunition and numerous guns from the Phoenix Park Arsenal of the de Valera Government (TIME, Jan. 8). That looked as though the phantom Irish Republic might soon come to life with a real Army and try anything from a coup d'état - sure to be bloody in Ireland - to civil war. As the Dail assembled last week for emergency action, James M. Dillon, M. P. exclaimed...