Word: putsches
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...Turkey, while Turkey's fate was discussed in Berlin . Few nations bothered to mark the 22nd anniversary of the World War I Armistice this week, an irony made more ironical by the fact that last week's most important anniversary was the 17th of an abortive Bavarian Putsch which was little more than a brawl...
...night last week the Iron Guard launched all over Rumania bloody but ineffective revolts. These were crushed by the Rumanian Army as easily as the German Army crushed the original Munich Beer-Hall Putsch. Last week the King might cower in his great creamy palace on Calea Victoriei while the mob screamed and the Iron Guard fired shots in the air, but the rioting never got beyond Army control. It was the Army's redheaded General Ion ("Red Dog") Antonescu who suddenly emerged on top of the pile at Bucharest...
...long training for the job. Strasser fought through all four years of World War I. He led the workers' militia against the generals who tried to over throw the Weimar Republic in the Kapp Putsch. His elder brother, Gregor Strasser, was Hitler's first Gauleiter (district leader). Brother Gregor, whose secretary was Heinrich Himmler, converted reluctant Brother Otto to the Nazi cause. Then both went into Nazi publishing, hired away from their enemies a live-wire propagandist-Paul Joseph Goebbels. Later Otto Strasser broke openly with Hitler. Brother Gregor did not break away. He resigned his Party posts...
Alsace Restored. For Alsace Hitler had another Putsch & purge expert, Gauleiter and Provincial Governor Robert Heinrich Wagner of Baden. Dishonorably discharged from the German Army for his part in the Beerhall Putsch of 1923, he became a full-time Rhineland agitator and Gau-heeler for Hitler...
...answer to all these questions still remained in,.the hands of Neville Chamberlain. Since the failure of Munich he has considered the war a personal conflict between himself and the German war lord who blighted his efforts for peace. Short of a political Putsch, which would probably cause dangerous disharmony at this time, Britain could only wait for him to change his mind...