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Between Wars: Returning to Yugoslavia in 1920, Tito was jailed on arrival. Later, under the dictatorship of King Alexander, Tito organized a Communist metalworkers' union, and paid the penalty: five years in a royal jail. Released in 1934, Tito became a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, and was sent to Moscow to study Marxism. Thereafter, using false names and forged passports, Tito flitted from capital to capital in Europe, organizing strikes, recruiting Red volunteers for the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, at the height of the great purge wave in Moscow, he was named...
...came the inevitable uprising (actually touched off by a priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla), and for 50 years Mexico was a chaos of violence, weakness and naive hope. Under the iron dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, the clergy briefly regained its privileges, but the revolutionary constitution of 1917 again swept the church aside in one angry, Marx-muscled blow. By 1928, only 197 priests were permitted in Mexico-out of 4,593 some four years before. One provincial governor tried to force priests to marry. Revolutionary generals rode into churches on horseback, smashing altars, and many churches were converted to movie...
...afford petty politics and bitter partisanship in its foreign relations. The Communist enemy, regardless of any momentary change of tactics, regardless of any treaty the Kremlin may sign, is bent on conquering the entire world-the United States not excluded-and remolding it in the form of the totalitarian dictatorship and slave economy imposed on the people behind the Iron Curtain in Russia, Rumania, Outer Mongolia and on the Chinese mainland...
Under his benevolent dictatorship, the Trib's 4,700 well-paid employees learned to expect from their boss the best in office housing and printing equipment. He even provided for his staff in case of an atomic attack, set aside a deep basement of Tribune Tower as a bombproof shelter stocked with cans of pineapple. Characteristically, he announced: "The best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...republic in a state in which the sovereign power resides in certain body of the people and is exercised by representatives elected by, and responsible to, them. A military dictatorship is a state in which the sovereign power resides in an individual (or in a very small group of individuals who act as advisers to one of their number whom they recognize as their leader) who is a member of an army which he controls, and which he uses to maintain his sovereign power. Egypt was a military dictatorship in 1953, a sit is at present. Mr. Lilienthal would...