Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal revived talk of Juan Perón's pet idea of an Argentine-led "Bloque Austral" (Southern Bloc), including Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plan was temporarily shelved after Bolivians overthrew their pro-Perón Villarroel Government last July. But the Chileans, if they felt any fears of Argentine-domination, kept quiet about them. The press without exception praised the Argentine treaty, generally gave President González Videla high marks for starting the project. Said González himself: "There is absolutely no reason to fear Argentine economic penetration. . . ." Chileans obviously...
...Mexico, in 1940, assassins had orders to lay a living ghost. He was Leon Davidovich Trotsky (real name Bronstein), organizer of the Bolshevik coup d'etat which overthrew Russia's democratic Provisional Government (1917), once Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Soviet Commissar of War, organizer and leader of the Red Army against the anti-Communist and Allied forces, and-after his expulsion from the Communist Party by Joseph Stalin-the world's No. 1 political D.P. From the safety of democratic countries (Norway, France, Mexico) which he longed to communize, this ubiquitous, political ghost had haunted Stalin...
...squads were oiling their rifles. The War Crimes Courts started with the first batch of 25 high Rumanian officers and officials. It was headed by ex-Premier General Constantin Sanatescu, formerly King Mihai's aide-de-camp. On the night of the coup d'état which overthrew the pro-Axis Government, General Sanatescu helped the King imprison Dictator Ion Antonescu in a vault built for ex-King Carol's stamp collection. Later, Sanatescu formed the first pro-Allied Government...
Baron Gabor Kemeny, foreign minister in the Hungarian government which overthrew the Horthy regime and handed Hungary over to the Germans, was caught in a roundup of Nazi agents...
When El Salvador last year overthrew her Theosophist-Dictator Maximiliano Martinez, she breathed a brief moment of freedom. It ended when Osmin Aguirre battered his way to power with the help of Lend-Lease arms. Hope rose again when all the nations of the Hemisphere (except dictator-ruled Nicaragua and Honduras) refused to recognize him. Chilled, he moderated his severity, staged Castaneda's election. Seemingly, he was forced to retreat toward democracy...