Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens Hitler and Ludendorff incited some beer-hall Bavarians to overthrow the German Republic on Nov. 8. Admitted. And what do they say when asked to show cause why they should not be decapitated, hung or otherwise extinguished for high treason? They say, in effect: "We were not the only ones. The highest Bavarian officials were in the plot, but got out when they thought it would fail. One of them was Dr. von Kahr, former Bavarian Dictator; another was the Commander of the reserve corps (Reichswehr), General Von Lossow. Another was Colonel von Seissermann, Munich police-chief. So there...
...Dictator, the General, and the Chief of Police did not, however, say all this in so many words. The Dictator said he joined the Hitler plot merely so that he could overthrow it. The General (Von Lossow) said that all they had in mind was the creation of a Directorate, of which Admiral Von Tirpitz was to be a member. Both of them referred to Prince Rupprecht as "His Majesty." The Chief of Police was forced to admit that all three of them were "hand in glove" with Hitler last November. Finally General Von Lossow left the court, refused...
...expected to overthrow the Monarchy, but he opposed the people and advocated a revision of the Constitution. He worked in harmony with King George I in reorganizing public instruction, justice, police, finance, etc. His part in Balkan scheming is by now part of history. Judged ethically it may not be to his credit, but from results his actions were certainly justified; for in the two Balkan Wars he doubled the territory of Greece. After King George was succeeded by his son Constantine, Venizelos' power dwindled, because he found himself in direct opposition to the pro-German royal policies...
Secretary of State Hughes in refusing to recognize the R. S. F. S. R. (Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republics) did so on the grounds that the Russian Government was seeking the overthrow of our Government. As an evidence of this he published instructions issued by Zinoview on behalf of the Third Internationale and then to couple the Third Internationale and the Soviet Government he published extracts of an editorial from Izvestia (Information) organ of the Russian Government...
Prince Felix Yusupov, traveling as Count Sumarokov-Elston, accompanied by his wife, Princess Irene, second cousin of the Tsar and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, and Baroness Wrangel, wife of the famed General whose White Army failed to overthrow the Bolshevik régime in Russia, arrived in the U. S. on board the S. S. Berengaria...