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The opening salvo in the government’s counter-offensive against the Veterans’ League came in Päts’ speech to the Farmers’ Party Congress on 18 February 1934, when he asserted:
We in the government must keep our eyes open and be prepared to use strong measures when necessary to protect the state. I have shown in my life that I do not shirk from such measures because I am convinced that often a few sacrifices can save the state from larger sacrifices. You can be certain that as long as I am at the helm of the state I will not allow any disorder to go so far as to place our state in danger.1
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Juhan Veelman ja Henno Rahamägi, eds., 12. märts. Aasta riiklikku ülesehi-tustööd (Tallinn, 1935), p. 5.
Friido Toomus, Konstantin Päts ja riigireformi aastad (Tartu, 1938), p. 123.
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Kasekamp, A. (2000). Coup d’État. In: The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919557_9
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