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...Barring the possibility of a coup d'etat by one of the Roman Catholic insurgent leaders in Mexico, the first opportunity for an orderly change of government will be the Mexican presidential election of 1928. The present reactionary Mexican group headed by President Calles will, of course, put Senor Calles' old and strong friend onetime (1920-24) President Alvaro Obregon into the race, but who is the chief pro-Catholic candidate...
...star of the man of destiny had begun to shoot like a comet. Epical dreams of a march to the Indies swirled within him. But he went no farther than Egypt, returned to Paris without his army. Everyone knows the rest of the story?the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...
...TIME, March 1) a no more and no less notorious adventurer than Dictator Pangalos, sprang a bloodless coup d' etat at Athens, telegraphed an order for the President's arrest to Spetsae. Resourceful, President Pangalos hurried aboard the destroyer Pergamos, sought to escape to a foreign port. Unlucky, he found the Pergamos short of coal...
While Germany continues to be harassed by economic burdens, however, the danger of a coup d'etat is always present. These rumors should remind the Entente of the peril of keeping their former foe dismantled. For howevermuch a recuperated Germany might be a menace, a Germany modelled on the virulently national Fascist pattern would be even more formidable...
...republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will then sigh with relief to find their worst bugbear so completely discounted in Germany. And political students who question the strength of Republican sentiment in Germany will have their doubts settled by the greatest popular referendum since Napoleon III staged his coup d'etat...