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...Mexico, in 1940, assassins had orders to lay a living ghost. He was Leon Davidovich Trotsky (real name Bronstein), organizer of the Bolshevik coup d'etat which overthrew Russia's democratic Provisional Government (1917), once Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Soviet Commissar of War, organizer and leader of the Red Army against the anti-Communist and Allied forces, and-after his expulsion from the Communist Party by Joseph Stalin-the world's No. 1 political D.P. From the safety of democratic countries (Norway, France, Mexico) which he longed to communize, this ubiquitous, political ghost had haunted Stalin...
Petain intimates claim that in December 1940 Laval planned a coup d'etat which would have detained Petain in Versailles and shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration...
...know any of the events leading up to this, but I know my uncle did leave the country Tuesday morning, two days before his cabinet appointees took over the government in the coup d'etat yesterday," he said. "He and my father, who was President from 1932 to 1936, have disagreed on many points since his election last year, but I am glad to hear he is safe. After all, he is my uncle...
...tain may be, his patriotism has never emphasized or even reflected the French egalitarian spirit. Even as an officer in World War I he was a professed Royalist, often expressing dislike for liberalism and democratic institutions. In 1934 when the Fascist Croix de Feu attempted a coup d'etat, its demand was for the Hero of Verdun as head of Government. Again, in 1937 when the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones) were caught in what seemed a foolish revolutionary plot, their aim was to make Pétain dictator...
Credit for the coup d'etat went to the Utah Chain Stores Association, whose members operate about 400 of the State's 6,400 stores. The tax was extreme, ranged from $50 to $5,000 a store, with the levy based on all stores owned by a chain, not just those in Utah. But the Legislature had passed it over farmer-labor protest, and the Governor signed it even after his own Attorney General had declared some parts unconstitutional. With these talking points and a sheaf of petition forms, notarized Association solicitors started a door-to-door trek...