Word: despot
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...Gentlemen: While the Italian peninsula is under the reactionary storm of Mussolini, the despot impersonating Attila, Caligula, Nero and all the enemies of liberty, we, Italians residing here, strongly protest in the name of civilization against the Yale University entertaining and honoring Gelasio Caetani, a champion of Mussolini...
...however, that Americans should show enthusiastic admiration for such a figure. For he has declared that Liberty is dead, and representative government a thing of the past. By his speeches and actions he has abnegated the principles of our Constitution. He should be, to American eyes, a tyrant, a despot, almost an oriental sultan in his arrogant absolutism. But it seems that for the rank and file of humanity the end justifies the means. If the autocrat succeed, who shall gain-say his right to rule? So long as it is Benito who holds the sceptre, "bene...
...Gomez, a pure-blooded Indian, who has played the despot game longest, is unique in having built a family caste. The two vice presidents of Venezuela are Gomez frère and Gomez fils...
...INTERPRETERS-A. E.-Macmillan ($1.65). A. E. (George Russell), brilliant Irish poet-journalist-philosopher, unites mystic philosophy and practical politics. The Interpreters is a platonic dialogue between a poet, an anarchist, a labor leader, an historian, a despot. The theme of their discussion, broadly, is the relation of "the politics of time to the politics of eternity...
...position in life, can wholly free himself from the responsibility for the opinions he holds about them. As a people we are highly sensitive to public opinion, and that is made up of personal opinions held by each and all of us. We cannot, like the subjects of a despot, say that it is for the ruler, and not for us, to inquire and decide...