Word: putsches
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Hard Luck. Massie, a Rhodes scholar and freelance journalist, will probably distress academic historians by his abstention from heavy ideological expositions-and by his brisk prose. His plain thesis is that the murder of Nicholas and Alexandra put the seal of irrevocability on the Bolsheviks' successful putsch against the infant Kerensky government. Both events are traced more to Nicholas' hard luck than to any concatenation of inevitable historical forces-a Marxist theory that 50 years of propaganda have almost conned the West into accepting...
...observers also feel that a volunteer army would soon become an army composed largely of Negroes -- shifting the burden of military service onto a minority group. There is also the argument that a volunteer army -- a professional army -- would be a seedbed for a Seven Days in May-style putsch...
...Making the most of their fears, Klaus's campaign posters thunder about "the proof in black and white of the Red Volksfront menace." For good measure, some campaign managers have spread the news by Mund'funk (word of mouth) that the two Red parties are planning a putsch...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). In "The Bow Wow Affair," THRUSH tries a putsch with some pooches, but Napoleon Solo and Illya have the last bark. Repeat...
...onetime Paris and London bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, who in five decades covered nearly every major European political event, often in his own Gipsy-Moth biplane, giving vivid accounts of King Feisal's 1920 enthronement in Damascus, the Russian famine of 1921, Hitler's Munich putsch, the East Berlin and Hungarian uprisings; following a heart attack; in Bad Godesberg, Germany...