Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacVeagh shared the Greek Government's exile after the Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free...
...democrat knows that reaction, monarchism, and fascism are futile as defenses against communism. Only democracy can fight for democracy. The Royalist government of Greece, elected by fear, force, and fraud, supported by terror and concentration camps, staffed by stooges of the late dictator Metaxas and the Nazis, is no democracy and cannot fight for democracy...
...such inference was intended. TIME was trying to contrast Lilienthal, the true democrat, and Eisler, the Communist, but concedes that the result was open to misconstruction...
...been mayor since 1923 (except for one term). Under the city's home-rule charter, he has become one of the most powerful municipal dictators in the U.S. But last week there were signs that Democrat Stapleton might be unhorsed. For the first time in a decade he had a tough opponent: wealthy, Yale-trained Republican Quigg Newton, a onetime legal secretary to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who had the backing of a growing reform movement...
Fitzgerald had the standard answer for that charge. No one should be booted out of a union, he said blandly, whether "Communist, Socialist, Democrat or Republican . . . because of color, creed, religion or political belief." He hotly denied that he was a Communist himself. So did his top assistants, Party-Liners Julius Emspak and James Matles...