Word: putsch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which roars, "Hail Ludendorff! Hail Hitler!" Stiffly in full uniform & medals, Prisoner Ludendorff poses with Prisoner Hitler who wears his raincoat with an air of defiance. Together ex-General Ludendorff and ex-Corporal Hitler, tried on charges of high treason for having led together the .famed Munich Beer Hall putsch which failed, cost 18 lives. Prisoner Hitler, as leader of the party of seven men which by this time has become the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of 30,000, shouts at his judges: "I know your sentence! But that high court above will not ask us, 'have you committed...
...awake! Perish Juda!" Wasting not a second, Chancellor Hitler piled into his Mercedes beside the chauffeur, shot off between lines of police to form his Cabinet with record speed. There were rumors, doubtless untrue, but alarming, that General von Schleicher & Friends were about to attempt a "General's Putsch" and proclaim restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. In less than an hour the new Hitler Cabinet had met for a brief conference in the Reich Chancellery and Germans were staring at this slate...
...early 1920's War-Veteran Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...
...moved the London Weekend Review to a puzzled analysis of U. S. character: "What sort of revolution can America expect? Not a Communistic or Socialist putsch . . . nor in a nation so uninterested in politics is a Fascist type of movement possible. . . . The chances of Technocracy must not be underrated. That it is radical and mechanistic enough to appeal to American slump Psychology is clear...
...highway back toward a representative Government. If no compromise is reached, the alternative is to dissolve the new Reichstag as soon as it meets and continue dissolving successive Reichstags until Old Paul von Hindenburg dies or refuses to sign decrees or until some exasperated German faction attempts a putsch...