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Word: mislabeling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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...democratic centralism." The most irremediably bleak and oppressive of the European satellites, East Germany, styles itself the German Democratic Republic. For that matter, all the satellites are fond of calling themselves "peoples' democracies." That tag was adopted by Indonesian Dictator Sukarno after he gave up the patently absurd mislabel of "guided democracy"-which has now been picked up by Malawi President H. Kamuzu Banda, who explains blandly, "I am a dictator by the will of the people." Southern Rhodesian Premier Ian Smith, busy developing a political hammer lock to keep some 250,000 whites in power over the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE WORLDWIDE STATUS OF DEMOCRACY | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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