Word: governments
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Serrano Suñer was educated in Italy, where he absorbed his Fascist ideas. He married the sister of Franco's wife. Under the Republic he was an obscure Govern ment lawyer, but when the death of General José Sanjurjo made Franco leader of the Rightist revolution Serrano saw his chance to impose his ideas on the politically uneducated Generalissimo. Lean, tanned and photogenic, Serrano has a driving nervous energy. His was the idea to fuse Spain's heterogeneous Rightist elements - Carlists, Monarchists, Traditionalists, Fascists - into the Falange. While the soldiers fought at the front, he organized...
World War II has made patriotism a second religion for many a U. S. citizen. But not for Jehovah's Witnesses. The Witnesses believe that Biblical prophecies literally govern every earthly event, that the U. S. flag, financiers, politicians-and all religions but their own-are agents of Lucifer, who is at large in the world and now grooming himself for a terrific last-ditch fight with Jehovah. Witnesses have recently been mobbed from Maine to Cali fornia (TIME, June 24). Last week they suffered: 1) at Columbus, Ohio, where Governor Bricker refused to reinstate a canceled contract that...
...means trustworthy, his ex-valet Roldan is in open revolt. Columbus himself is arrogantly, piteously aware that there is not a man on earth he can trust. It is Don Narciso's business to report to his King that "the Admiral was not fit to govern a farmyard, let alone an empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails, a more distinguished passenger is Columbus, in chains, with a ham actor...
They could reflect that the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness implies that good citizens will work together for the happiness of the greatest number; that in a republic the privilege of self-government imposes the obligation to select representatives who will honestly and disinterestedly govern; that the preservation of democracy requires all citizens vigilantly to exercise their democratic rights, to give generously of their time and their energy, to maintain their self-respect and respect for their chosen Government, to fight for it when necessary. For 20 years political apathy has been common to most republics...
...would be shipped to one of her tiniest colonies. The fourth King-Emperor of the British Empire will, as Governor of the Bahamas, rule 29 islands, 661 cays, 2,387 rocks in the Northern Caribbean, be Commander in Chief of six officers and 124 men in the native constabulary, govern 13,000 white subjects, 55,000 black, and a floating population of several thousand tourists-largely American...