Word: etat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors were making the rounds last week that Moscow had completed plans to overthrow Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. The coup d'etat, so the story ran, would start with a Moscow-engineered revolt in Belgrade. Tito would be liquidated. Satellite parachutists would descend on the Yugoslav capital; mechanized troops would roll across the frontier, presumably from Hungary, where by latest reports the Russians had five divisions (including two armored), were busily constructing airstrips. The rumors differed only on the timing of the coup: some said it was due this month, others next spring...
Later that day, he told the court, he sneaked down behind the reviewing stand where he met Rankovich. They discussed details of the plotted coup d'etat...
Scholarly Alexei Rykov, former president of the Council of People's Commissars, said: "... I confirm the admission of my monstrous crimes . . . We were preparing for a coup d'etat, we organized kulak insurrections and terrorist groups ... I would like those who have not yet been exposed and have not yet laid down their arms to do so immediately . . . Their only salvation lies in helping the party...
President Conant's action, taken in concert with several other American universities and colleges, came after he had requested and received information from Washington on events in the Prague school since the coup d'etat two weeks...
...should request that the reasons for this dissolution be announced. And unless the announcement is convincing, they should initiate an investigation of the Administration's decision. No such major policy ought to be determined and settled upon under conditions ever remotely smacking of a political intra-departmental coup d'etat...