Word: etat
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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...
...cheaper.cry had it). His career belies the charge. Once, in conversation with Novelist Andre Malraux, his wartime propaganda chief, De Gaulle declared: "One usually ascribes to me one quality: intelligence. Then how can one suppose that I am so unintelligent as to want to make a coup d'etat? . . . The era of the coup d'etat is past. It is an anachronism which does not at all correspond to my temperament." During the war, stubborn as he was with allies, he freely allowed himself to be overruled by Free France's Liberation Committee. And in the immediate...
...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...