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Tokyo was tense with apprehension of a coup d'état last week. For the first time a newsorgan of first magnitude made articulate the mounting fear that Japan's parliamentary institutions (imported only 42 years ago from the West) might be thrust aside by the military clique which launched Japan on her recent Manchurian and Shanghai adventures...
This statement, appearing under the personal patronage of Japan's Premier while Japanese forces were still occupying Shanghai last week, showed how close the Empire had come to anarchy-the anarchists being that group of Japanese generals and admirals who contemplate a coup d'état...
...Irish Press, organ of Eamon de Yalera who has just won the Irish election (TIME, Feb. 29), accused President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State last week of plotting to remain in power by a military coup d'état. That he was so plotting the President hotly denied. Nothing short of a coup d'état could keep Victor de Valera from becoming President by legal vote of the Dail, agreed Irishmen last week. Englishmen have been saying that "de Valera's hands will be tied." Even as President, he would have a majority...
...President was elected. His first act last week was to raise the state of siege which has gripped Argentina since September 1930 (when General Uriburu staged his coup d'état). Back toward home headed an Argentine transport crammed with political prisoners. Then suddenly the transport put to sea again. Aboard the ship, the new Government of Argentina announced, are crews...
...undergo a necessary surgical operation. General Baldrich repeated his challenge. The Government intervened. ' It announced: "Senator Palacios, the great authority on duelling codes, has ruled that insufficient grounds exist for this challenge." Meanwhile, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen who, as President, was overthrown by the coup d'état of General Uriburu, was let out of jail, promptly resumed his political activities. Back from exile arrived the publisher of La Critica, the suppressed anti-Uriburu newspaper, and it resumed publication. Critica published: 1) That torture was applied to political prisoners by the Uriburu Government systematically at the express direction...