Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-minute ceremony in Santiago's Congressional Hall of Honor last week, General Carlos Ibanez formally donned the broad red-white-&-blue presidential sash. Thus, 21 years after Chileans overthrew his dictatorship, the general returned to office as the republic's constitutional chief, chosen in a free and fair election...
What I did do, was to criticize the friendly attitude of the Democratic governments--including the United States--toward the Peron dictatorship which was and still in economy. I particularly referred in my criticism to a "credit" of 125 million dollars extended in 1950 by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to the Argentine government in order to rescue it from its calamitous financial condition. But I never exhorted anybody but the Argentines themselves to stand up and solve our Argentine problem...
They would be buying economic understanding in the only good way, as voluntary participants ... If that happens, the second era of trustbusting will be automatic. The people will break up with violence the most insidious monopoly of all, the out & out economic dictatorship of a few politically powerful...
Wilson wryly noted that he had had "some little experience with this kind of dictatorship" in the steel wage fight. Without naming the Steelworkers' Boss Phil Murray, he said: "I was overruled by a single man who . . . exercises more control over this country than the President, the Congress we elected, and the officers appointed under the Government." Harry Truman, said Wilson, had agreed to a "just" solution to the steel strike. "But the solution did not happen to give all that was wanted to one single man, this man who is able to ride roughshod over the President...
...Colonel Mohammed Rashad Mehanna, 42, who acts as liaison man between the committee and Aly Maher's cabinet, in which he sits as Minister of Communications. A religious nationalist and supporter of the Moslem Brotherhood, Mehanna's is the voice that urges Naguib toward an all-out dictatorship, anti-British, antiChristian, anti-Jewish. He is opposed by Wing Commander Anwar el Sadat, who urges Naguib to leave political business to those who understand it-or think they do-and to stick to the army...