Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Absolute dictatorship the world has never seen, will never see. Every tyrant is a slave to the inescapable calculus of power: how can I keep them bent to my will? Last week when the Kremlin extended its new conciliatory foreign policy line (see INTERNATIONAL), it was recognizing (as it often had before) that the blindfolded, voiceless 193,000,000 inhabitants of the U.S.S.R. were still a major factor in determining Russia's course...
Fifteen years in and now one year out of the Brazilian dictatorship, shrewd little Getulio had lain low on his southern ranch while his successors bungled the return to democracy, compounded inflation, let Brazilians go hungry. Last week, before a rally of his own Labor Party members in his own cattle-raising state of Rio Grande do Sul, Vargas blamed his downfall on "foreign financial interests," who were jealous of his plans to make Brazil economically independent, let go at President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his Government...
...Goldsborough called that strike "an evil, demoniac, monstrous thing." He said it meant "hunger and cold, and unemployed and democratic government itself, and "If actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the government will be overthrown, and the government that would take its place would be a dictatorship...
Meanwhile, the story was being widely quoted and reprinted in the European press. It was a typical TIME story which originated out of a query by TIME'S International and Foreign News editor asking the present state of the postwar political situation in Western Europe's oldest dictatorship. Percy Knauth, one of our most experienced European hands, was dispatched to Portugal to get the facts. Saporiti, who knows Portugal intimately, worked with him. Knauth mailed his voluminous, documented research to New York, and the story was written...
...upon the Portuguese might have been less if they had been accustomed to the benefits of a free press. As it was, opinions about the Salazar cover ranged from extremes of approval to extremes of disapproval. Government officials and party supporters were "outraged" at its description of "another European dictatorship [that] had failed"; oppositionists felt that it should have been stronger. Middleof-the-roaders commented that the story had "really hit pretty much the nose...