Word: etat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mineral rights from Haile Selassie. In Scoop, poor blundering William Boot is far more fortunate. He falls in love with a German girl, stays in the capital when rival correspondents are sent out to a non-existent front, scoops the world when Communists pull a coup d'etat, are frustrated by a mysterious British financier. Although in parts as funny as anything that Waugh has written, it sounds just a shade too much like wish fulfillment to have the true cold blood of satire...
Soon after the Nazi majority in the diet election of May, 1932, Bruening was forced to resign by the more extreme conservatives, to be succeeded the next winter by Fritz von Papen, who carried through Hitler's coup d'etat...
...Rightists, few prominent, were arrested, but their loud demands to be accused of treason and given their day in court were ignored. Fortnight ago, with the evident consent of the General Staff, a general on active duty declared that there was to have been a Communist coup d'etat on November 16, but that word of it reached the Staff in time for the coup to be nipped (TIME, Jan. 17). After this startling development, suggesting that French Army leaders knew a great deal more than the Chautemps Cabinet was eager for the public to learn, trouble was bound...
...General Julien Claude Marie Dufieux. Inspector General of Infantry and of Schools for Officers, a Wartime protege of Marshal Petain. General Dufieux coolly announced that two months ago he received convincing evidence that the Soviet Embassy in Paris was assisting French Communists to prepare a coup d'etat which was to have seized the Government on November 16, and laid this evidence before famed General Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief of the French General Staff, in time for the plot to be nipped...
...youth of handsome features and imperial mien is Egypt's pimply-complexioned, sport-loving King Farouk. Aged only 18, His Majesty, who came to the throne in July, last week took the risky course of executing what amounted to a bloodless royal coup d'etat. By all odds the largest political party in Egypt is the Wafd, and its leader Premier El Nahas Pasha has often dramatically declaimed: "Egypt is the guardian of Oriental Democracy!" Last week Nahas Pasha emerged from the Royal Palace wailing: "I have been cast aside as Premier like an old shoe...