Word: dictatorship
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...Know." For dauntless Alcide de Gasperi, the only choice is to fight it out on both fronts. To a huge crowd at Rome's Basilica of Massenzio last week, De Gasperi's strong-willed Interior Minister, Mario Scelba, fired the opening barrage. "If you want Communist dictatorship," said he, "vote Communist or [Nenni] Socialist. If you want adventurers to run the government and repeat all the errors of the past, then vote for the Monarchists and MSI [Neo-Fascists]. But honest men know that democracy, with all its deficiencies, is always better than totalitarianism of either right...
...Lenin made Molotov Second Secretary of the Communist Party Secretariat. The first secretary: his old ally Joseph Stalin. In the Trotsky-Stalin feud Molotov stuck by Joe, helped him transform the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the secretariat. One by one, the Old Bolshevik revolutionaries went down before Stalin's wrath: Trotsky the warlord, Zinoviev, chief of the Communist International, Bukharin, Lenin's "closest disciple" and longtime editor of Pravda, Kamenev, ambassador to London and Rome, Tomsky, head of trade unions, Rykov, head of government. Their power went to Stalin, their jobs to his faithful...
...that his successor already had stepped into office (see below), that Stalin's body was in the hands of the embalmers (the same who mummified Lenin). His funeral date had been set, and the Supreme Soviet had been summoned for an emergency session. The dictator was dead, but dictatorship continued; the efficiency of all this suggested to the outside world that Stalin may have been dead even before the first announcement of his illness...
...realms, each corresponding to a person of the Trinity. The Third Realm, said Joachim, was about to begin with the appearance of Dux e Babylone. (In terms of modern Gnosticism, the leader from Babylon would be called Superman or Der Führer, or "the dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of the democratic centralism of the Party.") The Third Realm was to be characterized by wisdom, and after the Third Realm's beginning (set by Joachim for the year 1260), men would soon be so perfect that they would not need any Dux or government or discipline...
Last month Naguib's approval of TIME seemed to be spreading to his countrymen. At the four-day celebration of the first half year of his reign, Naguib announced to a Cairo crowd his plan for a three-year dictatorship. During the parade that followed, the crowds passed shop windows which featured reproductions of Baker's painting of Naguib-blown up to twice the size of the original...