Word: megalomaniacal
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...this, De Gaulle has once again confounded his critics. Few statesmen of his time have been so consistently misunderstood. Joseph Stalin, in a moment of exceptional obtuseness, dismissed him as "not complicated." Franklin Roosevelt shared the view of him held by British Novelist H. G. Wells?"an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Others, misjudging him in two directions, have called him everything from a dictator-at-heart to an inept political thimblerigger...
Sweet Smell of Success. The rat-rat-tattling of a megalomaniac Broadway columnist and his fawning hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...death, while Soviet collective leadership was still collecting itself. Worried that Berlin riots might have chain reaction in satellites, the Russians in 1953 pulled the hated Rakosi back to Moscow, put up Nagy to head fictitious "People's Front." Nagy (called Hungary's Malenkov) condemned the previous "megalomaniac economic policy" and "exaggerated industrialization," promised workers more food, clothes, an end to "disciplinary measures." But one month after the fall of Malenkov in Russia, Nagy was denounced as a "rightist deviationist" who "encouraged nationalism and chauvinism." Reported ill (coronary thrombosis), Nagy vanished in February 1955. Rakosi was back, tougher...
There are other names for him too. London's Tory Daily Mail calls him "Hitler on the Nile." The Peking press coos: "Egyptian brother." France's Premier Guy Mollet has called him "a megalomaniac" dictator. "This is how Fascist governments behave," warns Sir Anthony Eden. The Cairo press calls him "savior of the people," the Israelis say "highway robber," "treacherous wolf." Nehru's private verdict: "Too young and inexperienced." To France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, Nasser is "a congenital liar...
...Russia to the new party line against the "cult of the individual." Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and other top figures were detailed off to explain to crowds of Moscow factory workers that the leader whom the speakers themselves had slavishly praised and served had really been a murderous megalomaniac. Some 15,000 agitators fanned out through Stalin's homeland of Georgia, where, as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan admitted last week, "some people" had "taken it hard" (TIME, March 26). In a cautious, 7,000-word article, Pravda last week broke the news of Stalin's disgrace...