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...past 50 years there have been 15 uprisings in Brazil and twelve in Uruguay, and today each has a President who gained power by a coup d'etat. Does the history of these countries really lead us to believe they can be in need of guidance from outsiders in the art of uprisings...
From then the show grinds on in dreary monotone. The patient audience is wafted back and forth, back and forth between the fairyland of Casinario and the prosaic world of fact. Of course, M. Banco effects a coup d'etat in the land he has come to rescue. Then he alternates between oppressive sanity and enlightened madness. The queen alternates between resolutions to abdicate and to force her handsome granddaughter into marriage with the tyrant. This princess alternates--but it's even duller in the telling. Climax succeeds anti-climax in rapid succession; tick, took, tick, tock; monotonous alteration...
News of the bloodless coup d'etat reached dapper little George II in his hotel in London's West End just before dinner. He dined with his aide, went out to a Mayfair party and had the kind of evening anyone would envy, telling his friends he would not accept the throne of Greece unless a majority of the people wanted...
Last week's event in Rhode Island was an aftermath of last January's legislative coup d'etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the Governor's appointees, could name other officers in their stead. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor might be Democrats, the General Assembly might be controlled by a Democratic majority, but Republicans still ran Rhode Island. Such was the situation in 1933 and 1934. One afternoon last January, when Governor Theodore...
This was to say that prefects must be more energetic in suppressing both radical and reactionary groups now hankering for a coup d'etat against the French Republic; must enforce Premier Laval's emergency decrees, especially those forcing down food prices, with greater vigor; and must not play politics with local disaffected groups. True Frenchmen and therefore argumentative, some 30 prefects next made the Premier listen to their views on how France should be run, each speaking out with vigor before the assembly about special conditions in his department...