Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smile in the topiary trimness of his beard. What tides of political refugees had swept through Europe since the beginning of this century! Each had left its human sediment or drift in Switzerland. The Count was sharing the sanctuary from which Lenin and his fellow fugitives had conspired to overthrow the Russian empire. Later the fugitives from Lenin, the White Russians, had sought a haven of safety. In little more than a decade many who had laughed at the shabby efforts of the White Russians to survive as taxi drivers and waiters were fleeing in their turn from the Fascists...
...purpose of its note to Germany was to prepare Argentine public opinion for war, could it sway the fractious Army, too? No one doubted that canny Vice President Perón remembered that Argentina's diplomatic break with the Axis a year ago had caused super-nationalists to overthrow Pedro Ramirez' Government. At week's end the situation in Buenos Aires was still "fluid...
Joseph Stalin had repeatedly told the German people that they might have an army and a free government after the war. But he had always conditioned that promise on the early overthrow of Hitler and an early surrender. Now Stalin said with Churchill and Roosevelt : "We are determined to disarm and disband all German armed forces; break up for all time the German General Staff ... remove all ... militarist influences." Political and economic disarmament would be equally complete and rigorous: "....Eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production . . . wipe out the Nazi party, Nazi laws, organizations...
...Pawns. What use Stalin will actually make of Paulus & Co. in conquered Germany was uncertain last week. Originally, the committee was set up not to rule Germany after the defeat, but to persuade the German Army and people to overthrow Hitler. Paulus and his fellows failed in that effort, but they may still have a place-perhaps a big one-in Joseph Stalin's plans for conquered Germany...
...Pawns. What use Stalin will actually make of Paulus & Co. in conquered Germany was uncertain last week. Originally, the committee was set up not to rule Germany after the defeat, but to persuade the German Army and people to overthrow Hitler. Paulus and his fellows failed in that effort, but they may still have a place-perhaps a big one-in Joseph Stalin's plans for conquered Germany...