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...position by removing the onetime Dictator who was trying to rule the King (TIME, Feb. 10). The sudden death last week of M. Venizelos profoundly disturbed the ticklish balance of power in Athens between Venizelists and the Army which is seething with ambitions for a coup d'état. As always since the War the stabilizing influence in Greece remained British influence. The millionaire widow of M. Venizelos is the daughter of a British-nationalized Greek. Another British-moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King George II himself went direct from London to resume...
...Frenchman and a Jew; and he hopes with something like passionate prophecy that French voters next April will for the first time give French Socialism a clear mandate to form a Cabinet. Such a result at the polls might backfire into a French Fascist coup d'état, but bandaged and prostrate Léon Blum was not worrying about that. To a question popped at him over the sheets last week he answered eagerly, "After the elections, with the approval of my party, I should willingly undertake the task of forming a Cabinet...
...Paraguayan Army demobilized and Bolivian prisoners returned to Bolivia. The Army had won the war; the politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco with organizing a so-called National Front of 42,000 War veterans and planning a coup d'état. Franco was exiled to Argentina. Last week two Franco friends, Colonels Federico Weddell Smith and Camilo Recalde, ran off as neat a revolution in Paraguay as anyone would like...
Even for Paris excitement had mounted high on a Communist-Socialist tide of alarms that Fascist youngsters were going to attempt a coup d'état and hurl white-whiskered statesmen of the French Republic into the icy waters of the Seine (TIME, Dec. 9). Not at all anxious for such a ducking is bewhiskered old Radical Socialist Deputy Henri Guernut, considered a great specialist in French political dirt because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues...
...Royalists. (Republicans had boycotted the June election of the assembly.) Last week, prodded by a life-size Kingmaker, the deputies amid wild cheers voted to abolish the republican constitution, revive the old monarchical constitution of 1911. hold a plebiscite Nov. 3 to confirm Kondylis' coup d'état and, finally, recall "Gorgeous Georgios" to the throne. The Government hastily ran off new stationery with the Greek royal arms...