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Argentines knew, and President Ramirez knew, that these were the words of a President who had become a figurehead. El Mercurio put the spotlight on Argentina's real leadership-the Army clique behind Ramirez. It said: "If the tide flows on as now and if there are not international complications, Colonel Perón can be, in a short time, the upmost Caudillo of the Argentine Republic...
...persistent rumor had a modicum of truth, the ex-Duce in his present physical condition could only be a figurehead. London's Daily Mail described him last week as "a spent force, prematurely aged, a pathetic, humbled, fearful figure." A report, allegedly from the Italian underground, said he was suffering from an intense nervous breakdown, apparently aggravated by old stomach ulcers. His skin had turned grey, his facial muscles sagged and sometimes his nervous fits were so violent that he had to be treated with morphine...
...election to the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang in 1924 was the first of many unsought offices which led, in December 1931, to the Presidency. During his eleven and a half years as President he was content to remain a revered figurehead; not once did he challenge the political power of the Generalissimo...
...bill would also reduce Donald Nelson to a figurehead, since he has delegated war production to Charles Wilson. Result: last fortnight Don Nelson passionately opposed the Maloney bill before the Senate Committee; last week he appointed his new vice chairman in charge of the home front...
...mutiny. But many critics seemed decidedly obtuse about The Eternal City. New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell declared: "The political aspects of this treatise are not altogether clear. We are left in doubt as to whether the propagandist considers this modern dictator a self-sprung megalomaniac or a figurehead manipulated by social forces...