Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor, he hinted that Japan would seize Singapore, urged the U.S. to divide the Pacific into two zones and let Japan "establish an ideal new order in Greater East Asia." Seventy days before the attack, he demanded immediate occupation of the Dutch East Indies, threatened that he would overthrow the Cabinet if it came to terms with the U.S. Six days before the attack, he demanded the sinking of U.S. ships if Washington rejected Tokyo's demands...
...popular movement would overthrow the monarchy, establish a leftist, anti-German government. Europe's listening posts described the temper of Bulgaria's people as ugly. Peace demonstrators marched in Sofia's streets, stoned the Nazi Embassy...
Like them we will give all our strength, and if need be our very life, to rally our people for the struggle for freedom, and to hasten the overthrow of Hitler...
...Information that Guariglia is aiming at a general peace including Germany came to London from responsible Spanish and Portuguese as well as Turkish sources. Guariglia is said to have recognized in private conversation that such a climax is bound to involve the overthrow of Hitlerism and to have added that 'Russia will have to stay within her proper boundaries.' Furthermore, Guariglia is said to be receiving Vatican encouragement...
Moscow immediately capitalized on the Italian situation in its political warfare. Moscow radio beamed an appeal of the Free German committee to the German people to overthrow Hitler. "Mussolini is the first to go, but he will not be the last ally of Hitler's to desert the sinking ship. In Budapest . . . the same will soon happen. Mannerheim and Antonescu also...