Word: dictatorship
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...great men were speaking of an upturn, and optimism still gripped the public mind. Black Thursday was a year old, Europe seemed to be heading for hell, and Carl Joachim Friedrich, then an assistant professor of Government, stated "There is no probability at all of the establishment of a dictatorship in Germany...
...hour of peril for our country and the Republic, I have turned to the most illustrious of all Frenchmen, to the man who, during the darkest years of our history, was our leader in the reconquest of liberty and who, having secured national unanimity around himself, refused dictatorship in order to establish the Republic . . . I am asking General de Gaulle to confer with the Chief of State and to examine with him what, within the bounds of republican legality, is immediately required for a government of national safety, and what can be done within a reasonable period of time thereafter...
Vice President Richard Nixon's espousal of a policy of calculated coolness toward Latin American strongmen got a warm and friendly reading even in the Dominican Republic, where Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo runs the oldest (28 years) and tightest dictatorship in the non-Communist world. Keeping its usual firm hammerlock on reality, the government radio station in Ciudad Trujillo, La Voz Dominicana, explained: "We are not certain, but it seems logical that Nixon was alluding to the pathetic case of Puerto Rico, and to the dictatorship exerted over that unfortunate island by Governor Luis Muñoz Marin...
...daily L'Aurore cried in boldface headlines: LET THE ELYSEE PALACE DESIGNATE DE GAULLE, and the Communist daily L'Humanité ran a frontpage cartoon of De Gaulle holding the dead body of Marianne, symbol of the French nation, with the appeal: "Bar the Route Against Military Dictatorship." Explained one censor: "De Gaulle's name is too much of a national symbol to tamper with." Translated from the French, that seemed to mean that the falling government, fearful of appearing either to embrace or offend the incoming Premier, found De Gaulle too hot to censor...
...Huxley sees little real hope for the future. And when the brave new world comes, he concludes, it will likely stay forever: "Men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown...