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...Bangkok, Siamese leaders of what the world press had been calling a "revolution" or at the very least a "coup d'etat angrily denied last week that it was either...
Colonels, captains, generals, admirals scratched their heads. The Army, Navy, Air Force and the carabineers tried to make up their minds who should be Head of the State in Chile. Already there had been two Heads since the coup d'etat of June 4. Last week there was a third, and a fourth might follow. But two out of Chile's three new heads of State thus far had been the selfsame brainy little cranium of Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, onetime Chilean Ambassador at Washington. Thus the situation at Santiago was comparatively stable last week. Censorship had been clamped down...
Short of a military coup d'etat or acquiescence of Adolf Hitler in a coalition this prediction seemed flatly unfulfillable. Observers inclined, however, to see in General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl precisely the pair who may be able to draw Adolf Hitler into a Junkers-Army-Fascist coalition, thus giving the Fatherland a fresh and iron front, potent in dealing with other nations...
Japanese politicians, more fearful than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast...
...putting-out system' is the nearest thing in the English language to what is so well expressed by the French 'coup d'etat,'" is a gem of the student howlers which members of the History Department have encountered in recent years. History is considered the most fertile field in which to find such "boners," a fact that is well testified to by some of the following...