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...made public. The issue was immediately seized on by the Australian press, whose management was bitterly opposed to Gough Whitlam's Labor government, as a prime emblem of artsy socialist mismanagement. The propaganda value squeezed from this episode certainly helped many Australians accept the virtual coup d'etat by which Whitlam's government was dismissed...
...concerted efforts of conservatives to get Mitterrand to change his mind failed. Throughout the summer, businessmen had lobbied Premier Pierre Mauroy, Finance Minister Jacques Delors and Industry Minister Pierre Dreyfus, all moderates who were thought to consider the nationalization plan excessive. The Conseil d'Etat, a 199-man body that advises the government on the constitutionality of legislation, warned that it might be discriminatory to take over French companies while leaving foreign ones in private hands. But Mitterrand remained loyal to a central plank in the Common Program he signed with the Communists in 1972. Declared the President last...
...began adopting the techniques of the novel in the features they wrote for the Herald Tribune's Sunday supplement, or Esquire or anywhere. Symbolism, multiple perspectives, even self-indulgence: it was all there. What's more, it was all true. Actual Journalism. These journalists staged a shocking coup d'etat against their respected big brothers, the novelists. Soon the oldsters wanted to play...
...British government by early 1981. Premier Rene Levesque of Quebec, head of the separatist party that decisively lost a plebiscite last spring on the right to negotiate with Ottawa for sovereignty-association, characteristically produced the most biting quote. He called Trudeau's plan a "proposed coupt d'etat...
Patriotism has most often gone wrong when people have confused loyalty to the republic with loyalty to one government or another. Political leaders almost invariably seek to legitimize themselves by the d'etat, c 'est moi "strategy that makes their own interests inseparable from the well-being of the country itself; disloyalty to one becomes disloyalty to the other. Thus the Nixon Administration had it that its critics were unpatriotic. J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI to try to destroy the lives of "unpatriotic" Americans like Martin Luther King...