Word: putsches
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...moved the London Weekend Review to a puzzled analysis of U. S. character: "What sort of revolution can America expect? Not a Communistic or Socialist putsch . . . nor in a nation so uninterested in politics is a Fascist type of movement possible. . . . The chances of Technocracy must not be underrated. That it is radical and mechanistic enough to appeal to American slump Psychology is clear...
...highway back toward a representative Government. If no compromise is reached, the alternative is to dissolve the new Reichstag as soon as it meets and continue dissolving successive Reichstags until Old Paul von Hindenburg dies or refuses to sign decrees or until some exasperated German faction attempts a putsch...
Test. The states of Bavaria and Baden and the ousted Cabinet of Prussia all introduced suits in the German Supreme Court at Leipzig last week challenging the legality of the Schleicher von Papen putsch under the German Constitution. Embarrassed judges pondered over the week-end and then, to the surprise of few, decided in favor of the Cabinet. Even so, Chancellor von Papen was not quite sure enough of himself to offend the southern provinces unnecessarily. With Minister of the Interior von Gayl he hurried to Stuttgart, assured the Premiers of Bavaria and Baden that he had no intention...
...brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, the smiling, near-sighted Prince Chichibu. Fencing-Master Toth neglected to notify Prince Chichibu of his appointment, but someone did notify the Budapest police. A squadron of them pounced upon the conspirators' Pest house, dragged 19 plotters off to jail, nipped the putsch while yet it was green. In the Court of Interrogation convened last week one of the conspirators mentioned the name of General Franz Schill. The Court was aghast. Respected General Schill but recently retired from the gendarmerie after 35 years of faithful service. His son is a lieutenant...
...part in the Beer Putsch Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison, served one. Complacent editors thought that that was the end of Hitlerism. So perhaps it would have been but for the Depression. Adolf Hitler gave thousands of young Germans a chance to escape from reality. Hitlerites had uniforms, brass bands, roaring mass meetings, plenty of free beer. In 1930 when Germany had over 3,000,000 unemployed, Hitler had 6,000,000 followers and with 107 delegates controlled the Reichstag's second-largest party...