Word: putsch
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...that he had strengthened his own position by alienating the support of the " Anglo-Saxon world and Italy " from France. Herr Adolf Hitler, known as Bavarian Mussolini, was in the Fortress of Landsberg, about 36 miles west of Munich, by the Bavarian Government for his share in the recent putsch (TIME, Nov. 19). His trial is not likely to take place until after Christmas. Recent despatches report that he is critically ill with brain, fever. Dr. Joseph Wirth, ex-Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs from May, 1921, to November, 1922, with the exception of a brief period, was reported...
...billion in the U. S. and a third of a billion divided between Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Part of these sums would have been immediately available for financing a Reich-wide Nationalist Revolution. This also the French General Staff had in mind. The failure of the Ludendorff-Hitler putsch called a halt in French military measures, as the reports from a Germany in convulsion were so contradictory that even the French General Staff, with its very complete spy-system, could make little of the events...
Temporarily at least Chancellor Stresemann and his government appear to have greater worries than that of a Rhineland Republic. The very fact that its population has been scattered and rendered leaderless by France, thus making the putsch easy for the handful who consummated it, points to the instability of the new state. The crisis in Bavaria where Reactionary forces are concentrated and organized, and the rumbling of Communists antagonistic to Bavaria have a far more ominous appearance...
...alarm felt, particularly in Socialist circles, was undoubtedly accentuated by memories of the Spartacan Rebellion of 1919 and the Kapp Putsch of 1920, the one Communist, the other Monarchist. With both parties stronger than ever they have been since the War, their proposed temporary fusion is indeed food for serious thought...
...political situation in Germany continues to be fraught with peril. A putsch, not dissimilar from the Kapp Putsch of 1920, is an imminent possibility. The object of such a movement would be primarily to prevent the country falling into the hands of Communists, who have been engineering a plot to seize the Government for some time. If the coup d'état were successful, a Fascist dictatorship would be established, followed, no doubt, by the reëstablishment of the Monarchy...