Word: dictatorship
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...began taking from the West, but he took with discrimination. He wanted to democratize Turkey, for "no country is free unless it is democratic." But he recognized that "Democracy in Turkey now would be a caricature," and set his dictatorship to preparing his nation for democracy. Thirty years ago this month (on Oct. 29, 1923), Kemal became: President of the new republic, commander in chief of the army, president of the Council of Ministers, chief of the only party, and speaker of the Assembly. He began ridding the Turks of the things that reminded them of the degenerate past. First...
...later years, after he had raised his people up, he decided to ease his dictatorship. He brought his ambassador home from France, ordered him to head an opposition, ordered his own sister to join it. The new Liberal Republican Party was so polite at first that Kemal demanded more vigor; when it became more vigorous he abolished it. "Let the people leave politics for the present," he said. "Let them interest themselves in agriculture and commerce. For ten or 15 years more I must rule...
Formal negotiations were begun six months later-but they proceeded slowly. The State Department and the White House were reluctant to make any sort of agreement with Franco Spain. Their reasons: 1) the Franco government is a dictatorship; 2) a U.S.-Spanish pact "might cause the jittery Western European allies to think that the U.S. considered them militarily indefensible...
Press and public clamored for the answers to two questions: i) Why had the New York State Harness Racing Commission done nothing about the violation of the regulations? and 2) Who were the owners who submitted to Lewis' dictatorship? As the storm swirled up the Hudson to Albany, Governor Dewey acted promptly. First, he suspended the license of the Yonkers track (which was scheduled to open a 42-night fall meeting this week) until all 1,200 employees had submitted fingerprints and required statements...
...fought in Generalissimo Franco's army during the civil war, joined the Falange and to this day lives and works under the Fascist regime, his novel about Madrid is being cheered by emigre Spanish Republicans. So rare a distinction stems from a rare quality. In the face of dictatorship, Novelist Cela has the courage to write the truth as he sees it and the talent to transform his merciless vision of contemporary Madrid into a series of Goya-like vignettes...