Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
...editors have preceded each speech with a notation of events leading up to it, and the editorial comments of leading newspapers are appended to each address. In the light of this commentary, readers will probably find Section IV' on "Bloodless Victories" the most interesting. Rarely before in history has the success or failure of a powerful movement depended so completely on the oratorical genius, the political sense of a single man. At this time the German Army is determining the fate of the Reich, but when Hitler occupied the Rhineland he alone was guiding Germany over a tight-rope...
...Fleet Street the big milestone was the Times's bloodless revolution. Said the leftish Sunday paper Reynolds News: "The Times recently has been showing refreshing signs of an independent spirit which, expressed with a brilliance unmatched in journalism, may win back the press leadership it lost in that long dark moment of mental aberration in which it confused the interests of a small class with the welfare of the whole community...
Embassy in Mexico City to lead a Spanish Republican army against the Canary Islands. This cabal, Arriba snarled, was conceived "under the bloodless standard of the movies and with puerile disregard of the vigor of free peoples." Not published in Madrid were the prompt denials of General Miaja and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels...
Undoubtedly the grimness of the war was coming home to the German people. The Russian campaign had been neither swift nor bloodless. German families without a casualty in Poland, France, the Balkans, Africa or Crete heard that a son, a father, a husband, a sweetheart or a friend had been killed in the fighting against Russia. The R.A.F. was pounding harder, by day as well as night (see p. 17). And though midsummer had come as a late blessing to homes heatless by decree since May 1, warmth was the only mitigation of Germany's joyless and complicated living...