Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Korean Answer. Again Syngman Rhee had a Korean answer: a serious military effort, never made during the Korean war, to defeat and overthrow Chinese Communism. Twenty divisions of R.O.K. troops, he reminded the Congress, are ready in Korea; 20 more could be mustered, with military aid from the U.S., and another 630,000 troops, according to Rhee, are available in Formosa. From the U.S., only naval and air units, said Syngman Rhee, would be needed...
...clear that Castillo Armas planned no abrupt swing to the right. His coup came to Guatemala in the midst of a ten-year-old social revolution against a series of dictatorships that had ruled for 105 years before. The rebel, who sided with Arbenz in the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico, has no nostalgia for the old days. Last week he promised to consolidate all "social reforms benefiting the working class" and to "continue the public works begun by our enemies." Land redistribution, which has been slowly getting some of the country's huge estates into peasant hands...
...were done away with on June 30, 1934, the "night of the long knives." If Hoettl can be believed, Heydrich achieved his masterpiece when he painstakingly forged a correspondence suggesting that the brilliant chief military strategist of the Russian army, Marshal Tukhachevsky, and high German officers were plotting to overthrow Stalin...
...Russians, Georg Dertinger met his match. The Russians, who had bought him so cheaply, knew his worth. One night, 17 months ago, State Security Police arrested him, and five others, including both of his mistresses. They were accused of spying for the West and of plotting to overthrow the Red government. Last week the verdict was announced. One mistress got three years' sentence; the other, an eleven-year term. Georg Dertinger: 15 years' hard labor...
...support this conviction. Author Bowers has marshaled powerful arguments. He recalls that the Spanish government that Franco set out to overthrow did not include even one Communist or Socialist, that out of more than 470 members in the Cortes, there were only 15 Communists. He also presents convincing evidence that Italy and Germany were in the scrap from the beginning. His documentation of the murder by Franco's men of 15 pro-Loyalist Basque priests after the fall of Bilbao is tragic proof that not all the outrages against the church in Spain were committed by the Reds...