Word: punta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President remained inactive for two days making plans. Impatient Colonel Pedraza demanded an audience, was refused. Fellow Plotter Lieut. Colonel Gonzalez, disgruntled over the loss of his customs concession and the sharp contraband control ordered by Batista, unlimbered the guns of La Punta fortress, trained them on the Presidential Palace. Guards set up machine guns around the Palace and piled sandbags in front of it. Cubans waited for the revolution...
...President placed himself at the head of the Army, suspended constitutional guarantees for 15 days and commanded the Army to take over public utilities. The big guns of Camp Columbia were trained on La Punta fortress. Batista ordered the arrest of Colonel Pedraza and of Lieut. Colonels Gonzalez and Garcia, replaced them. Next morning all the rebels were in custody. To the Army and nation the President declared that it had been necessary to "repress" his Army and Navy chiefs because of their "attitude of sedition," but that "a deep crisis which endangered the stability of the Republic has been...
Both these beliefs are based on the fact that during the Spanish Civil War, Germany took occasion to install, ostensibly for Dictator Franco, an untold number of huge coastal guns not only at Algeciras and Tarifa on the European side but also at Fort Hacho (Ceuta), Punta Blanca, and other points on the African side...
First saga of Punta del Este was written by the Exeter'?, Stoker Charlie Holmes...
...Altmark'?, true character. The British Admiralty, in ordering a raid in neutral waters, certainly was breaking international law right & left, regardless of its excuses. While Berlin snarled horrendous but vague threats of reprisal at both Britain and Norway, the London Times heartily observed that the Battle of Punta del Este would have lacked a fitting sequel if, "after the lion [Spee] had been destroyed, the jackal [Altmark'] had escaped with the prey." Come now what might, Britons felt that nothing could be worse than a parade of 326 British captives through the streets of Hamburg...