Word: putsches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chile for decades, he is bent on improving the lot of the country's underpaid, overworked rotos. To do this he lined up his Radicals with the Socialists, Radical Socialists and Communists, took the field against the landlordly Rightists. Infuriated with Rightist President Arturo Alessandri for suppressing their Putsch last September, 15,000 Nacistas (Nazis) on the eve of the election joined the Popular Front's political hodgepodge, helped Lawyer Aguirre win by a slim 3,000 majority...
...leader, changed its name to the National Socialist German Labor Party, wrote its antiSemitic, antidemocratic, authoritarian program. The party's first mass meeting took place in Munich in February 1920. The leader intended to participate in a monarchist attempt to seize power a month later; but for this abortive Putsch Führer Hitler arrived too late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?provided the party with dead martyrs, landed Herr Hitler in jail. His incarceration at Landsberg Fortress gave him time to write the first volume of Mein Kampf...
Died. Lieut. General Otto von Lossow, 70, onetime Bavarian Reichswehr commander, who once called Hitler a "swashbuckling little ward politician" and suppressed the Munich Beer Hall putsch (1923); in Munich...
...globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British lifeline, which vibrated slightly last week with a fizzled putsch in Siam. Perhaps Singapore also would have fallen if the war had lasted even a few months. With these in Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range...
...ominous look? Are all democracies expected to go on a jag every generation or so ? Do Viewers-with-Alarm expect Federal finances to go haywire ? Failing to have his way with the Supreme Court, the Executive Department and now the Senate, is the President expected to resort to a putsch to perpetuate his policies? Are the Nazis suspected of a plan to sabotage American aid to France and England when Der Tag arrives...