Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caudillo reviewed 15,000 troops marching through the flag-bedecked but still war-scarred streets. Behind the troops marched column after column of Falangists, led by Franco's brother-in-law Ramon Serrano Suñer, chanting their battle song, Face to the Sun. Fighting planes roared overhead. Authoritarian Spain had been told it had much to be happy about. Special editions of Government-controlled newspapers had shown the contrast between Spain of a year ago and Spain of today. Brother-in-law Serrano, who is also Minister of Government (interior), had inaugurated a public-works program calling...
...Authoritarian though Brazil is, its Estado Novo has no political link with Italy's Stato Corporativo, Germany's Third Reich. When war started, with German agents swarming over the country, trying to buy up Brazilian papers to counteract Brazil's Allied sympathies, President Vargas clamped on the press a censorship as tight and thorough as Edouard Daladier's control of the French press...