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...forbid the movement of traffic in or out of the city. Without a fight, the rebels occupied communication centers in the capital, burst into the office of Premier Nguyen Khanh, and arrested several duty officers but found no trace of the Premier. It was the coup d'etat that many had dreaded but hoped would not happen...
Conquest by Coup d'Etat. It was not mere vanity that motivated De Gaulle. His obstinacy had a political purpose. The Communists, Aron convincingly shows in this superlative account of the Liberation, were about to seize power in many parts of France. They made up a great part of the Resistance, and no one could fault them for their courage during the Occupation. De Gaulle realized that only by appearing as an utterly uncompromising, incorruptible leader could he win the confidence of Frenchmen and stave off a Communist takeover...
...Bayeux. He promptly took over and installed his faithful deputy Francois Coulet as administrative head of the region. Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite subprefect, whom the British had instructed to stay on the job, and replaced him with a Resistance fighter. It was a simple coup d'etat: when the infuriated British came to protest, Coulet banged his fist "on his new desk, shouting: "My presence here has nothing to do with you. I'm here on De Gaulle's orders." The British retreated...
Bunker claimed that civil rights issues should properly be handled by the states. He said that the legislation favored by Kennedy tended to centralize power is the federal government and make it potentially easier for the internal Communist conspiracy to effect a coup d'etat and control the political life of the United States from Washington...
...Jeff's stating that he would resign if our Club invited Governor Wallace to speak at Harvard alone. The majority of our Executive Committee and a majority of our members decided to extend such an invitation. That this course of events should be construed as a coup d'etat or a plot to overthrow is, at best, an unjournalistic attempt to stretch a point...