Word: dictatorship
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...democracy dead in Pakistan? "Of course not. Any country which does not have a Communist dictatorship has some form of democracy." What will happen to all the politicians thrown out of office by his coup? ''They should pray a little bit now and ask forgiveness from God for their sins." Pakistan's troubles, said Ayub Khan, arose from the clash of power between the President and the Prime Minister: "I say, after you have elected a man for a fixed period, it is much better to let him have a run instead of pulling his leg every...
...victory was all the more impressive because the U.D.N. and Juracy were political also-rans for years. Once Vargas' governor of the important state of Bahia, Juracy broke with the dictator in 1937, helped found the U.D.N. to fight the dictatorship. But in its first campaign, U.D.N.'s candidate was quoted-or misquoted-as saying: "I don't need votes from lunch-pailers." Ever after, U.D.N. was considered a silk-hat, antilabor party...
...ever there was a people ripe for a dictatorship, it is the American people today," playwright-novelist Gore Vidal, author of Visit to a Small Planet, said yesterday afternoon...
Spain is still a dictatorship, but not so severely as it once was. It is more prosperous than it used to be-though still the poorest nation in Western Europe, outside its next-door neighbor Portugal, where a fellow dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, is Franco's only senior in office...
...endanger democracy in France. De Gaulle himself, who is likely to be the first President of the new Republic, is neither a demagogue nor an autocrat. The institution of the Republic, in spite of what many critics of the Constitution declare, can hardly serve as a springboard for dictatorship. The emergency powers are described so minutely that they cannot really be used except in situations such as the fall of the Third Republic in June, 1940, or like the fall of the Fourth last May--circumstances in which a "national arbiter" might prove indispensable...