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...enough, were now lurching to the other extreme and calling it desperate. But Italy's Demo-Christian leaders are taking a stronger anti-Communist stand; Italy's economy is at a relatively high level. Italy, which is 65% antiCommunist, is by no means ready for a Communist Putsch...
True to the pact in its own fashion, the army soon settled the immediate Communist threat by marching shock troops into Berlin. When Adolf Hitler and his beer-hall fanatics flared up in their 1923 Putsch, the army ground it out in the Munich gutters. Later the officer corps began to think it could use Hitler to fashion a Reich more to its liking. But once the ex-corporal got to twirling the hourglass of history, the sands of power ran out fast for the corps. The day was to come when German generals would be framed, tortured and hung...
...Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...
...Made headquarters for an anti-Perón putsch...
...last years, went too far in his toughness in foreign policy. Sharing his long-range ambitions, they might feel that for the present, toughness is no longer paying dividends. Communist subversion in Greece led to the strengthening of Greece and Turkey. The 1948 Czechoslovak Putsch forced Western Europe into NATO; the invasion of Korea sparked Western rearmament. By 1956, the Kremlin may reckon, the Communist world is apt to find itself confronted by an armed and aroused U.S., supported by a coalition in which German and Japanese arms loom large. Here again, fact bolsters guess: now is perhaps the last...