Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this crossroads through the ordeal of defeat and occupation, and through the explosive tensions of liberation. She had tasted the bitter truth in the words of Lord Grey of Fallodon: "Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty." Now, in democratic fashion, France registered her choice for the future...
...Argentina, where a ruling clique and a single city, Buenos Aires, seemed to decide a great nation's political destinies? And what of that democratic policy, laudable in aim, by which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden had seemed to triumph in Perón's overthrow? The phenomenon of the Strong Man and his army, his labor unions and his determined bands of street fighters, needed clarification...
Silver-maned ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stirred up the already turbulent presidential election campaign with a story that had Brazil by the ears. Two years ago, related soft-spoken Aranha, General Eurico Caspar Dutra conspired to overthrow President Getulio Vargas. (Current point of the story: Dutra is a candidate for the Presidency in Brazil's December national election, and Vargas is ostensibly supporting him.) The plot was nipped by Vargas before the coup could be executed, Aranha said...
Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...
Revolution by Consent. Unlike most British Laborites, before the war Laski had abandoned all hope for achieving socialism by gradual reforms. (Said one critic: "He never does things by halves, he always does things by doubles.") His formula: the overthrow of "acquisitive [capitalist] society" through "revolution by consent...