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World War I broke Czarist power, brought about the 1917 short-lived Kerensky government and the Bolshevik coup d'etat. Stalin got out of Siberia, but took small part in these momentous events. U.S. Journalist John Reed did not even mention him in Ten Days That Shook the World. But Stalin, the Inside Man, emerged as one of the seven members of the party's political bureau and was appointed Commissar of Nationalities. Joked Lenin: "No intelligence is needed, that is why we've put Stalin there...
...Belgium, the Conseil d'Etat, which is short on legal powers but long on moral suasion, unexpectedly took the position that the EDC treaty violated Belgium's constitution...
...intimidation, bloodshed, and perhaps even civil war. In fact, the stakes are so high and the conflict so bitter between the incumbent Liberals under President Elpidio Quirino and the Nacionalistas under Senator José Laurel that some observ-.ers talk darkly of the danger of a coup d'etat before election day. From TIME'S Far East Correspondent Robert Neville this week came a report on the situation...
...King now?" The answer to this rhetorical question-in a land which most Americans are apt to regard as a musical-comedy setting-was: nothing whatever. In the 19 years since Siam became a constitutional monarchy, her political history has been punctuated by eight coups d'etat, none of which had any profound effect on the powerless ruling House of Chakkri. Last week, young hepcat King Phumiphon Adundet,* his pretty Queen Sirikit and their eight-month-old daughter Princess Lotus Precious Stone arrived home from Switzerland to find their nation just recovering from one of the quietest coups...
...Bangkok's perennially gay nightspots had scarcely missed a beat when the government radio announced that "due to present world tension and the Communist infiltration in parliamentary circles, the Army, Navy, Air Force, police and patriotic Siamese had found it necessary to stage a military coup d'etat." Most of Bangkok merely sighed and carried on. It had been a revolution by news broadcast...