Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some idea of how realistic might be the results of the democracy v. dictatorship discussions could be got from the character of the building in which the delegates sat down to business. It was the hall of the Peruvian Congress, Hispanic, charming, but a little small for the 136 delegates. The Congress has not met for more than two years, having been sent home in 1936 by General Oscar R. Benavides, who has run Peru singlehanded ever since...
...passed through Washington, where it was announced by the State Department that he would stay in the U. S. a while to "advise" the Department on Central European doings. To join their conversations at Warm Springs, President Roosevelt summoned William ("Bill") Phillips, his Ambassador to the other Jew-purging dictatorship, Italy, who returned to the U. S. early last month on leave...
Mainly Opinions. In 1935 Odets led a party to Cuba to investigate its dictatorship, was promptly arrested, soon after deported. Odets now chiefly furthers his beliefs through his writings. Says he: "People can only do one thing at a time. A writer must write. Besides, it is not the explosion that should most concern the artist-it is the causes leading...
...wants to know what the chances are of starting a Fascist dictatorship in the U. S. That depends on the Americans, replies Thomas the Cynic. The Fascists' main advantage, he says, lies in the inertia of democratic leaders who tend to live "on the yield of their ancestors' conquests," are prone to be morally defeated before the fight begins. After a big crisis from which there is no return to the status quo, these leaders cannot hold power and Socialists are too timid or too weak to take it. Says the Cynic: Mr. W., there's your...
Since Rumania is already under a virtual dictatorship, Kind Carol's purge of his Fascist opponents is in itself hardly an event of universal importance. At the same time, if viewed in the light of corollary events, the purge takes on added significance. It may indicate that little Rumania has decided definitely to oppose--and, with the help of Britain, effectively to oppose--the eastward march of the rumbling Fascist juggernaut...