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Harold J. Laski: I do not forget that the German Republic was saved from the Kapp Putsch by a general strike.

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I do not forget that the German Republic was saved from the Kapp Putsch by a general strike.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski recalls the historical significance of a general strike in saving the German Republic from a coup.

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