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...Time Is Now." Quickly, it became evident that most of the delegates were in a mood for vehement talk. "We seek action now," cried N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. "We are here to condemn murderers. We are here to demand redress for victims of cruel dictatorship." N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington director, Clarence Mitchell, added: "Tell those Democrats that if they keep a stinking albatross like Senator Eastland around their necks they can kiss our votes goodbye." Some N.A.A.C.P. delegates felt, however, that such talk did the organization more harm than good in the high-tension atmosphere of today...
...forward this new impression, it was necessary first to smash an old idol. Overnight the world saw the myth of modern Communism's demigod junked, and the great man's works and ways dismissed as "20 years of dictatorship and lies." The very name of Stalin all but disappeared from the press. On Army Day his picture was missing from its place of honor beside Lenin's in Moscow's Central Army Theater. "Svetlana's Breath," the bestselling perfume named for Stalin's daughter, vanished from the perfume counter in Moscow's Hotel...
...pattern of the Chinese Communist terror in his 1949 tract, On People's Democratic Dictatorship. Said Mao: "The reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinion." One of Mao's lieutenants, writing in the Peking Current Affairs, wryly but grimly spelled out how to proceed: "Execution means fundamental physical elimination of counterrevolutionaries, and is of course the most thorough measure for depriving counter-revolutionaries of the conditions for counterrevolution ary activity." What gave the Chinese terror speed and weight was tested techniques borrowed from the Soviet Union at a time when Stalin...
...measure of a tough dictatorship is that it does not have to appease public opinion. In the early days of his rule, Spain's Francisco Franco showed no sign of caring what people might think about his repressive acts. But today Spain, a U.N. member, is a generation removed from the martial aftermath of its civil war. Last week Franco, looking for scapegoats for the recent Falange-student riots in Madrid (TIME, Feb. 20), found it expedient to appease two important blocs of Spanish opinion...
Fifty thousand Egyptians crowded under a vast, quilted tent in Cairo's Republic Square one evening last week to hear Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaim his long-promised constitution. This was the moment when Egypt was to pass from military dictatorship to "republican and democratic government." To mark the switch, Nasser and his eight-man junta had resigned their army commissions. They took their places on the platform wearing civilian clothes. "The true revolution begins today," orated Nasser. "The whole people will constitute a supreme council for the revolution." "Ascha Gamal!" (Long live Gamal), chorused the crowd...