Word: etat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military coup d'etat by Nicaragua's "strong man", General Somoza, brings the problem of Latin American policy again into the foreground. With the Pan-American Congress scheduled for the near future, with $13,000,000 investments and a ninety-year option on the Nicaragua canal route at stake, the delicate problem of recognition becomes of paramount interest, particularly since under the Central American treaty of peace and amity of 1923 we are unable to recognize a ruler who comes to power by a coup d'etat...
...political organization which hopes for support from the majority of Harvard students must fight to maintain a spirit of non-partisanship against all comers. The inevitable attempt at a radical coup d'etat should be ground under foot at its first budding, and the obvious failure of political bodies here in past years has been their inability to show this resistance...
...they read its proclamation they abruptly changed their minds. Like Hitler and like Stalin, dictatorial Franco spoke of his gang as constituting "The Revolution" and announced that it is the State. In 1936 this has become the usual crude variant of Louis XIV's elegant platitude, L'etat c'est moi. Immediately the Peace Conference gave fledgling Dictator Franco a deep nudge in the ribs by intimating that they had previously intended to recognize his Government because they had understood it was going to be democratic...
...President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora, was not in the least sure that the unexpected ballot victory of the Left might not enflame the Right's scheming would-be Dictator, Don Jose Maria Gil Robles, to attempt a coup d'etat...
...British Royal Family. Therefore in Athens the restored King showed himself anti-Italian at once, soon forced out Dictator Kondylis, ordered a general election. The Field Marshal swore that if his parliamentary henchmen did not win a majority, his military henchmen would lead a coup d'etat to oust King George. Last week the Kondylis cohorts had not won their majority, but Kondylis' sudden death did not disrupt the cohorts. Almost as though they had known Death was about to strike, the busily intriguing officers, some hours before the field marshal was stricken, were conferring with General Pitsikas...