Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Painter Pablo Picasso's big Left Bank garret studio last week an impressive group of French intellectuals† met to hasten the overthrow of Dictator Francisco Franco...
...National Committee. Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
Seven times since early 1942 the young King and his young aides had planned to overthrow old hatchet-faced Marshal Ion Antonescu, the Nazi-loving dictator. Seven times they had to call off the plot...
...first by telephone and forcing him on arrival to call up another. Four or five arrived and made calls, among them the War Minister and the Prefect of Police. All were imprisoned within the palace grounds. That night Mihai proclaimed Rumania's surrender to the Allies and the overthrow of Antonescu...
Almost at once, alarmed Italian monarchists and republicans launched a heavy, attack on the Communist-supported coalition cabinet of Liberal Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, threatened to overthrow...