Word: dictatorship
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...conservative offered a resolution of his own: "The [federation] is strongly opposed to the totalitarian dictatorship of the Soviet Union." The federation for the promotion of social action in the spirit of Jesus voted that one down...
...line politicos have raised a hue & cry that Papagos plans a dictatorship. Chief among his opponents: former Premier Nicholas Plastiras, Centrist, himself a onetime general, though considerably less successful than Papagos, and Sophocles Venizelos, a bridge-playing, bumbling, well-intentioned Liberal. The U.S. has taken no stand in this election, but with Greece about to become a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty alliance, there is no doubt that U.S. military men would like to see an efficient administrator and housecleaner like Papagos...
...amusement, he watched the clanking military parades on Red Square or booted a soccer ball through the courtyards. Whenever he left the palace, he saw evidences of the imposed tributes of dictatorship: the three-story murals of his father throughout Moscow, the monuments, parks and buildings erected to Stalin. He saw how ordinary mortals fawned whenever his father spoke. Before long, young Vasily Stalin learned that the boss's son could also dictate and be obeyed...
With each passing week, as the screws are slowly turned down, Juan Perón's Argentina looks more like a fascist-type dictatorship. Last week Perón & Co. twisted the screws tighter in three fields...
...mood. He sat for a press conference, and Venezuela's usually censored press printed his remarks: "Democracy without liberty of the press is impossible. It's no help to the government to have a press which only praises it." Then, though Venezuela now lives under a military dictatorship, he said forthrightly that armies should not mix in government: "Anyone who uses the army as an instrument for political aspirations is defeated beforehand." After this ringing statement, Plaza tactfully decorated the three members of Venezuela's ruling junta...