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...celebration of the "March" or Coup d'Etat whereby Editor Benito Mussolini became Dictator, he decreed, last week, inauguration of the following recently completed public works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services?respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...
Reza Pahlevi has indeed had his present status as Shah of Persia constitution-alized by Parliament, but his seizure of power was essentially a coup d'etat, staged by an officer who had frequently foraged supplies for his itinerant Cossack troops in the manner of a bandit...
...bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...
...Etat, c'est moi,* "beamed Louis XIV of France. Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg might paraphrase: "The State Department, that's me." Last week, in an aftermath conversation about Senator Carter Glass's criticism of the State Department's foreign loan policy (TIME, Oct. 24), in retort to a rumor that the State Department was of divided opinion on the subject, President Coolidge said he had always assumed that the Department of State was the Secretary of State...
...Noli '12, Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, liberal, and former premier of Albania, has been sentenced to death. This sentence has been given him and eight of his compatriots for recently signing a manifesto protesting against the regime of Ahmed Zogu, who executed a coup d'etat in December, 1924, ousting Fan Noli from the Presidency. The sentences were by default, however, since all of the condemned men are living abroad...