Word: putsch
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...Government threats to seize British property in his part of Spain unless the Rightists are granted recognition and "belligerent rights" by London. For the first time in several weeks strong rumor revived that Adolf Hitler might further complicate matters by "creating a diversion from the Spanish war," attempting a putsch in Austria...
Bound home from his fishing trip, President Roosevelt declined to comment directly on the Dodd letter, but newshawks aboard the Presidential special learned from his "associates" that he was inclined to share his Ambassador's fears. Though unconcerned about whether any particular billionaire was planning a fascist putsch, the President was represented as believing that a dictatorship might indeed result unless his foes were held in check...
...great General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff from the obscurity of a suspect crackbrain to official sanity just as sound as any other German's nowadays, and also to official greatness, was accomplished last week by Adolf Hitler. He and Ludendorff conspired together for the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, marching down the street at the head of their henchmen toward Power- they hoped. When police began shooting to disrupt the putsch, they carefully did not aim at Hero Ludendorff who walked through their fusillade iron-faced, nor was Herr Hitler shot. Knowing that the police would...
British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
...Read the Putsch Pasha's communique: "His Majesty the King Has requested me to discharge the present Government and form another Ministry under Hikmat Bey Suleiman [a creature of the Pasha's] . . . our Movement has no object except realization of the happiness of the people . . . our mission is the will of the King...