Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more especially to the Four-Power Peace Pact recently signed in Rome by Britain, France, Italy and Germany (TIME, June 19). As one dictator to another Benito Mussolini sent no protest to Adolf Hitler...
...maintenance of a Government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty" in Cuba. Written originally as fire insurance, this amendment became two-edged. In the hands of a tyrant it could be brandished as a weapon and up to last week attempts to overthrow corrupt Cuban Presidents had uniformly failed...
...said that our own country has broken with democracy--that the exigencies of the time have forced even the home of popular government to abandon the faith. Can we compare the course of events here with what has happened in Europe? Dictatorship has been a complete overthrow of representative government as we have come to know it. It is based upon the principle of the Organic State, in which the individual as an end in himself is forgotten. The State has become the Supreme end, and to its greater glory men have become mere instruments. The dictator is the embodyment...
Under the impression that everything was rolling smoothly. Premier Daladier rose in the Chamber of Deputies to retort to ultra-Nationalist Louis Marin. If the Daladier Government signed the Four-Power Pact the Nationalists threatened to overthrow the Cabinet. Snapped Premier Daladier...
...other countries has not invariably followed along lines indicated in communistic theories. What makes India particularly amenable to communism is assumed rather than proved in the article. Even accepting the desirability of communism in India and conceding the possibility of serial revolutions there, is it judicious to advocate the overthrow of Ghandi at this juncture? He is successfully marching his people towards political emancipation from a foreign yoke--a condition that must precede any other desired change. This first revolution is not consummated yet. Its hard won gains may be easily lost in a Will o' the Wisp chase...