Word: napoleonism
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When the decision came, Eisenhower had close to 4,000,000 men on the Continent-"a force," he notes, "30 times as large as the Allied armies which defeated Napoleon ... at Waterloo...
...Gaulle's speech. In the Chamber of Deputies, Jacques Duclos shook his fist, cried: "Let me warn you. Where the rioters started . . . last night . . . Adolf Hitler started over twenty years ago!" Pravda's correspondent fished farther back in history, likened De Gaulle to President-Emperor Louis Napoleon. Leon éBlum, De Gaulle's most lenient critic, shook his head. "In France the step from presidential to personal power is all too short. . . ." Not a single responsible party leader defended Charles de Gaulle's gravest political mistake...
Died. General Jorge Ubico, 67, Guatemala's efficient, undersized, Napoleon-complexed dictator-President (1931-44), who balanced the budget and produced a little but not too much prosperity ("If the people have money they'll kick me out"), and was fond of showing his boxing prowess by beating up his Cabinet members (with armed guards present); after long illness; in New Orleans...
...Whose political writings and salon wisecracks so ruffled Napoleon that in 1810 he had her exiled from France...