Word: dictatorship
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Dean Acheson was not far from the mark when he observed, speaking of the six months when Harvard was recently without a President, "We at New Haven have, of course, followed closely the recent meetings, at Cambridge when that most touchy of maneuvers--the transmission of power in a dictatorship--was accomplished...
...pact, which will be signed formally in Belgrade next month, joins together a republic, a monarchy and a Communist dictatorship. Little more than a century ago, the Turks were murdering their rebellious Slav subjects; 32 years ago, Greeks and Turks battled for Asia Minor; seven years ago, the Yugoslavs harbored and outfitted the Communist assault on Greece. Last week geography and common peril triumphed over ancient grudges...
Died. Poultney Bigelow, 98, wealthy, globetrotting author-journalist; after long illness; in Saugerties, N.Y. A lifelong crony of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, Author Bigelow was easily quoted on dictatorship, boating, war and nudism ("To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women"), once urged the U.S. to make F.D.R. President for life, and before Pearl Harbor, predicted Axis victory in World...
...after the brilliant election, Argentina went back to being a dictatorship as usual. Radical Party headquarters called in foreign correspondents and gave them the word that four top leaders, including the unlucky Radical who opposed Teisaire for the vice presidency, had been arrested...
...Rafael L. Trujillo is one of the great men of his time in the Western Hemisphere ... I tell you the so-called dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in this island fortress against Communism is much better than ours in one particular . . . Trujillo is much more sensible, practical and helpful to his people than Roosevelt...