Word: powers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sought out the general for private interviews, usually at the office De Gaulle inhabited on his weekly visits to Paris. Each time, Vinogradov noted the general's growing impatience with NATO and his obsession with the steady decline of French prestige. After De Gaulle was swept back into power, Vinogradov's own prestige soared. "Khoroshy chelovek [excellent fellow]" he would say when asked what he thought of the general, and at the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle began to refer to the Russian as "mon Gaulliste...
...evening of Feb. 27, 1933, just a month after Hitler's coming to power, Berlin police entered the flaming Reichstag building and arrested one Marinus van der Lubbe, a shambling young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation over the fire, Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler...
...labels of the Cuban revolution, high government officials have divided into moderate "friends of Cuba" and far-left "friends of China" (for their admiration of Red China's methods). Last week Strongman Fidel Castro shucked off top friends of Cuba and gave all significant power to friends of China...
...president of the powerful National Bank of Cuba went Felipe Pazos, 47, ranking Cuban banker, sound-money man, and onetime International Monetary Fund official in Washington. To replace him in Cuba's central bank, Castro named Major Ernesto ("Che")* Guevara, 31, the Red physician, who thereby got vast power over Cuba though he is Argentine born and bred...
...triumvirate still has a popular mandate, but its popular power is dwindling. It has all the guns, but history shows that force alone is no enduring answer in Cuba...