Word: putsch
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...Great issues of foreign policy, as well as the narrower one of Marxolatry, were involved in the rivalry. Zhdanov and his followers seem to have sold Stalin on a Europe First policy that brought the tide of Soviet power to its maximum westward penetration: Czechoslovakia, seized in a Communist Putsch in February 1948. But in their year of victory the Zhdanovites suffered two reverses: Tito defected, the airlift saved Berlin...
...worked out if there is a "genuinely representative all-German government, formed as a result of free elections and able to participate in full freedom in the discussion of a peace treaty." A united Germany must be free and sovereign, safe from outside interference, and secure from any domestic putsch. Above all, the West insisted, Germany must have "the basic right of a free and equal nation to associate with other nations," e.g., in the European Defense Community (E.D.C.). To deny this right, as Russia did, would mean "permanent shackles" on German sovereignty...
Denver's recent outcry against the "Big Bottle"-a huge, steel Old Forester bottle erected as an advertisement (TIME, April 7) atop a downtown office building-made Brown-Forman Distillery Corp., its owners, suspect a prohibitionist putsch...
...most prominent, after Adolf Hitler, was a good-looking young blueblood named Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. He was a fascist when the world barely knew what the word meant. In 1923, he stood by Hitler's side in the unsuccessful Munich beer hall Putsch. Back in Austria, he was fond of bleating such sentiments as: "We have much in common with the German Nazis . . . Austria will go fascist sooner or later. Better sooner than later . . . Asiatic heads [meaning Jews] will soon roll in the sands." In 1934, his green-shirted private army, the Heimwehr (Home Guard...
...dawn, the union's directors kicked Behncke out of the presidency, retired him on a pension of $15,000 a year, equal to his salary as president. A.L.P.A.'s new president: Clarence Sayen. Cried ex-President Behncke, who threatened to take the whole matter to court: "Illegal Putsch...