Word: putsch
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...long passages on the Munich beer-hall putsch of 1923, Hitler's escape, hiding and capture are a tour de force of dreamlike action. Hughes makes totally credible the incredible figure in the stained trench coat, hypnotically making his devil's incantations and stuffing cream puffs in his pockets-an ogre sowing the wind, though only the reader has a foreknowledge of the whirlwind to be reaped...
...Opposition. Under De Gaulle's one-man regime, the army has taken over the role of the political opposition. Instead of the Fourth Republic's recurring crises, it has substituted putsches. Since the 1958 uprising that cleared the way for De Gaulle's accession to power, the military crises have come annually, exercising a constant blackmail threat against government action it opposes. So mistrustful of the army is De Gaulle that its fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies are being doled out in quantities sufficient to last only a few days, after which any putsch would theoretically...
...Algiers, 40,000 troops were alerted six times last week because of an expected S.A.O. coup. Officials reported that some 2,000 young Europeans had mysteriously disappeared from Algiers, were being trained in the countryside. De Gaulle himself recently told a close friend: "If there is to be a Putsch, the sooner it comes the better. Best get it over with before...
...compliment by rounding up 17 anti-Gaullist Frenchmen. Among them: Pierre Lagaillarde and his crony, Café Owner Joseph Ortiz, who has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the barricades revolt, as well as a handful of ex-colonels involved in the generals' Putsch...
...barricades" week, were loudmouthed braggarts who usually gave away their plans long in advance. Today's ultras are well organized, disciplined, tough. Their spearhead is the S.A.O. (Secret Army Organization), an underground movement commanded by French officers who supported last April's four-day putsch led by ex-Generals Raoul Salan and Maurice Challe...