Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nine months of winter, and three months of inferno" is an old yet apt Spanish adage. Those few Americans who braved climatic considerations, and waded through the red tape to obtain a visa to a dictatorship, found themselves in the hottest (121 degrees and higher was not unusual), dryest, poorest, and most isolated of Europe's states...
...defendants had taught their followers to prepare for the coming of some crisis-a depression, perhaps a war with Russia. At that point the revolutionists would spring into action. Through strikes and sabotage, they would paralyze the industrial machine, bring about the violent overthrow of the Government, establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Orders to follow such a course had come directly from Moscow, which maintained rigid discipline over its U.S. followers. The methods of the U.S.C.P. embraced lying, false swearing, secrecy (all characteristics of a conspiracy), and the whipping of aggrieved minorities into active resentment...
President Juan Peron last week took steps calculated to transform his clumsy authoritarian government into an up-to-date dictatorship. With laws rammed through the closing session of Congress (43 were passed in five hours), the President did away with 1) free political discussion of himself, his wife or his regime, and 2) any future election threat to his rule...
...certainly left-wing and just as certainly not a communist, a distinction which a number of people can't be bothered to make nowadays. In public speeches I have often heard him condemn the present dictatorship in Russia; I have also read an article in which he condemns the Atlantic Pact (International Journal, April '49; see also "Correspondence" in the July number.) He steers difficult course quite honestly and openly. To the right wing he's a commie; to the commies he's a "social fascist," whatever that means. To me, and, I should think, to most people he would...
...then queried me about Indo-China, concerning which I know practically nothing, as I told him. He also asked me whether I should prefer a dictatorship of the right or the left in France. My response that I should want no dictatorship of either extreme failed to satisfy him and he insisted that I choose...