Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leftists often act as if they had no memory and had read no history; they seem unaware of the Communist-organized rebellions in Greece and Malaya, the invasion of South Korea, the repression of the Hungarian uprising, the Berlin Wall. While they are theoretically opposed to any dictatorship they endlessly make allowances for Communist regimes; they feel outraged by U.S. leaders while either apologizing for or extolling Castro and Mao, and of course they want instant, unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, heedless of the consequences. "We refuse to be anti-Communist," declared Lynd and Hayden in a statement written...
...World War I, when the first Constantine exerted his influence on behalf of Greek neutrality. Constantine was forced into exile by a Cretan political wizard named Eleutherios Venizelos, and the feud went on for decades. The monarchy's popularity plummeted even further when George II backed the military dictatorship of General John Metaxas, who ruled Greece from 1936 until the Germans and Italians overran the country...
...military's mood was not improved when placard-waving, pro-Papandreou forces took to the streets, battling right-wing students in Salonica and police in Athens. "This will be a constitutional deviation, a royal dictatorship," Papandreou predicted. "We have only one answer: a people's revolution." To this the King replied: "If Papandreou starts a revolution, I will start the counter-revolution." Unable to get enough votes to form a government, Kanellopoulos dissolved Parliament, set the elections for May 28?and thus, wittingly or unwittingly, cleared the stage for last week's coup...
Hideous Heritage. Der Alte himself bloomed late in life, beginning his main mission when he was 73. In 1949, when, as Chancellor Kiesinger said last week, "he took over the office of Chancellor, the name of Germany in the world was that of an outcast. He who had opposed dictatorship had to take over the heritage of misery, bitterness, hostility and hatred that it had left behind." As the architect and first Chancellor of West Germany, Adenauer singlehanded led his nation from the ruins of that hideous heritage to a respected and prosperous place among Western nations...
...present crisis, the U.S. could play an equally important role in restoring some sort of constitutional government to Greece. Even to maintain neutrality towards the military coup would be tantamount to support of the dictatorship. It would be more in the long-range interest of the U.S. to refuse recognition to the current regime...