Word: junta
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...next (witness France after 1870, Germany after 1918). As Chief of Staff, General Papagos saw to it that Greece's 18-month compulsory training for all males between 21 and 50 was no child's play. King George II, after his restoration in 1935 by a military junta of which Papagos was a member, made the Army popular by insisting on clean barracks. But it was the combined, concentrated brains of Metaxas and Papagos which evolved the mountain strategy and tactics now bearing such startling fruit. Last week Norwegian mountain troops journeyed from Great Britain...
...cause of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán sputtered like a discouraged short circuit last week. Loyal Almazanistas insisted that their leader would arrive in the capital by month's end, that he was ready in Mexico for a mysterious "strategy junta." But the Almazan camp in San Antonio was dismally inactive. In Mexico City a band of 500 men & women waving the green flags of Almazanismo tried to rip down a poster proclaiming General Manuel Avila Camacho President-elect of Mexico, was quickly broken up by a squad of motor cycle police. Scattered rebellions in northern...
General Almazan was reported to be somewhere near by, either in Texas or in northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...
...actually being organized. Big-hipped, soft-spoken Pepe Palencia beat the Almazán drums for the election this summer. Less in the spotlight, more powerful from the background was chunky, balding Neri, head of Almazán's PRUN (Revolutionary Party of National Unification). If a junta was being formed, he was the man to form...
Camacho's pre-election backing embraced every loaded political weapon in Mexico-notably President Cárdenas and his junta, the Partida de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members...