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...superintendent leading the B. E. F. nucleus, Walter W. Waters resigned his command. Infected by the parliamentary goings-on at Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into re-electing him commander by acclaim. Then he returned to B. E. F. headquarters on 11th Street, Southeast, posted sentries as a precaution against a counter coup...
...Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen (TIME, June 13). On July 31 Germans will elect a new Reichstag, chances being that the Fascists will emerge as the largest party but without a majority. In that unsatisfactory event the political deadlock would be so complete that a coup d'état looms distinctly possible. Last week every faction-Monarchist, Fascist, Socialist, Communist-was watching cat-like for a chance to seize power by means fair or foul...
Such was the biggest, best & boldest promise made last week by small, dapper Don Carlos Guillermo Davila whose recent coup d'ètat set up Chile's new Government (TIME, June...
...looked and acted as though he would be the last man on earth to propose State Socialism. Last week he suddenly proposed it to the Chilean people in a bulky manifesto of 20,000 words, was accused of wanting to make himself President by a coup d'état...
Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...