Word: schilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...someone did notify the Budapest police. A squadron of them pounced upon the conspirators' Pest house, dragged 19 plotters off to jail, nipped the putsch while yet it was green. In the Court of Interrogation convened last week one of the conspirators mentioned the name of General Franz Schill. The Court was aghast. Respected General Schill but recently retired from the gendarmerie after 35 years of faithful service. His son is a lieutenant in the army. Nevertheless the Court ordered him arrested, held. Last week he sat in a cell, his head bowed in shame. The door rattled open...