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...Silence! Respect!" The coup d'etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta...
...fussed, he retired to the quiet of his office, prepared a supplementary statement to prove his point. He cited the 1923 declaration of Charles Evans Hughes, then Secretary of State, to the effect that the U. S. would recognize no Central American government inaugurated by a coup d'etat. He elaborately explained that South American governments are in a different category, having no treaty among themselves (as in Central America) governing recognition of revolutionary regimes. Days before the recognitions were granted, Citizen Calvin Coolidge in his daily syndicated article baldly and prophetically summarized: "It is well known that...
Fanny, the pretty little Burmese-Italian half-caste, was the immediate cause of Mandalay's downfall. When good King Mindon died, and the unscrupulous Supaya-lat married Thibaw, a minor prince, and engineered a coup d'etat which landed him on the throne, his brothers and their supporters in a bloody grave, Fanny, her European maid-of-honor, found herself a favorite. In spite of wholesale massacres not quite drowned out by nightlong music and daylong feasting, Fanny enjoyed those butterfly years. But then she fell in love with Bonvoisin, who had come to the court...
...Coup d'Etat of 1861. Professor Langer, Harvard...
...skepticism of League statesmen was understandable. Doubtless they had reminded Dr. Streeruwitz of last month's bloody clashes between Austria's two irregular armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the socialist Schutzbund, both bands of political zealots eager to seize the state by a coup d'etat (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.). Last week after observing a brief truce, Heimwehr and Schutzbund leaders were again roaring threats at each other...