Word: etats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. Only unexpected absentee was George V's particular friend and protege George II, the newly restored King of Greece (TIME, Nov. 18). His Majesty was detained in Athens because the former Greek Dictator, Field Marshal George Kondylis, threatened to lead a coup d'etat against the Throne if this week's election went against Kondylis. Against him it went...
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...
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...