Word: etat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the Association began to function, a third issue split the membership: whether to join the IUS. NSA sent a representative, William Ellis '46, to Prague, charged with 13 conditions under which NSA would join IUS. While the negotiations were going on the Communist coup d'etat took place, and the IUS refused to take a stand against the new government for jailing anti-Communist student leaders and professors. Ellis broke off negotiations, resigned from the Prague Secretariat, and denounced IUS's betrayal of student liberties...
Cabau, however, said that De Gaulle is not supreme in so far as he was enstated by the liberals in a coup d'etat and as he is a liberal in colonial affairs and economic problems. Cabau called the class struggle in France "harder" than in any other country and warned of the fascist menace that has spread from Algeria to France...
Though the president of the deposed council protested, "This is a veritable coup d'etat" and there were rumors that the councilmen might meet in secret on French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
...Dorothy sailed to England in 1920, became a reporter when International News Service signed her to cover a Zionist conference in London. For the next eight years, she matched wits with the sharpest scoop hounds in Europe-Gunther, Floyd Gibbons, Walter Duranty. She covered a Polish coup d'etat in evening dress, with the help of $500 lent her by Sigmund Freud. With verve and clarity, she analyzed the mood of Depression-hit Germany. But her best-known bit of punditry was also her worst: in 1932 she produced a book on Adolf Hitler, decided he would never reach...
...chose instead to remind it of its duty. The junta itself preserved a careful ambiguity about the source of its authority. Unpredictable Zealot Jacques Soustelle. greeted by fervent admirers in Algiers, nonetheless cried ou; "Long live the Republic!" and denied that he was preparing a coup d'etat...