Word: dictatorship
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...successfully urged 50,000 howling workers from the slaughterhouse district into the streets and got his freedom in eight days. Four days later, a secret civil marriage sealed their conjugal-political union. After Perón was elected President, Juan and Eva began their spectacular man & wife dictatorship...
Black Monuments. Without naming either F.D.R. or Harry Truman, Eisenhower by implication accused them of having been too soft toward the Communist threat, both at home & abroad. "We have been too ready for too long to trust a godless dictatorship," he said grimly. "Think of the places that stand as black monuments to this misplaced trust. Our loss of China, a divided and almost naked Germany, the enslaved countries of the Baltic and the Balkans, the long and bloody struggle in Greece." That morning, Ike had said goodbye to his son, Infantry Major John Eisenhower, who is soon to leave...
...writing in Foreign Affairs in 1947, he argued that Russia would not risk war to attain its expansionist objectives, that it could be checked by cool-headed applications of U.S. strength at points around the perimeter, and that ultimately the "seeds of decay" inherent in the Soviet dictatorship would destroy its threat to the democratic world...
...outside world, the campaign was uncomfortably reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's home-front campaign against the Poles in the days before his Wehrmacht started World War II and as venomous as anything Soviet Russia hurled at Nazi Germany during the war. It was the kind of technique a dictatorship must use to put an oppressed population in a mood to fight a war. Yet neither Kennan nor the Russian Desk analysts in the State Department are ready to push their conclusions that far. For one thing, they doubt that 72-year-old Joseph Stalin, a man who believes that...
...time of World War IV (with Britain) the Dictatorship had abolished the 48 states and organized the country into military sections. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, "those greedy and avaricious rascals," became the U.S. Politburo. Thus, the military ruled the new "Democracy," assisted by an executive echelon of bureaucrats and supported by the petted farmers...