Word: despot
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...theoretical despot, technically absolute, actually impotent, arrived at Paris last week, swathed in billowy garments, bedecked with Orient gems, surrounded by 100 six-foot Negro guards, by many a caid and pasha...
...Name a despot whose acts are restricted by no law, civil or religious...
French power there. He is more. He actually governs Morocco for the Sultan, and as the Sultan is in theory an absolute monarch, Marshal Lyautey is par excellence a beneficent despot. His word is law. Yet, he always takes care to treat the Sultan's subjects with great tact. He has infinite patience, but, driven to act, he moves with merciless rapidity. The Arabs, who almost always admire a brave and wise man, admire Marshal Lyautey; for he never fails to punish the culpable, no matter how difficult it may be, and he never fails to pay the utmost...
President Benevolent Despot...
...President is an autocrat; yet he has no power to decide anything or to give orders to anybody in the institution. Over the professors or the faculty he has no authority of any kind." In spite of this, however, Dr. Kirkpatrick believes that the government is "a benevolent despotism" with the president as the despot. "A practical control over the appointing and administrative boards of the faculties", he says, "goes far toward securing for the officer who possesses it, the rule over the institution...