Word: bonapartist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have some fun with Fèvre, get some publicity into the bargain. In the men's magazine Adam he described him as an "homme déshydrate" (a dehydrated fogy),* and got some friends to show the article to Fèvre. Fèvre's Bonapartist pride was stung...
...Stalin's chief administrative assistant, and with Beria in the next top post, the new Government can hope for the full support of the secret police. As for the Army, the other force on which the Kremlin has to reckon, the new marshals like Zhukov, who might have Bonapartist ambitions, are suspect. Voroshilov and Budenny, as old party warhorses, are politically much more reliable...
...Robert Michels (1876-1936) argued that all democracy tends to grow into what he called "Bonapartism"-a government in which parliament continues to exist but is entirely "subordinate to the Bonapartist leader, for only he completely expresses the popular will...
Long-haired, tiny-mustached M. Guigui read a prepared statement on French labor's resistance to Germany's manhunt for manpower. Then a London Daily Herald reporter asked: "To what extent do the French people distrust De Gaulle's Bonapartist tendencies...
...explain why De Lattre de Tassigny, apparently guilty of mutiny, was charged with "abandoning his post." Last week at a secret trial in Lyon he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment (or for the "duration"). Imprisoned, he could still consider himself in gallant company. Youthful Prince Louis Napoleon, Bonapartist pretender, was arrested last week while trying to run the border into Spain...