Word: overthrown
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...experienced only a gun-toting, vote-buying, ballot-stuffing, blood-letting travesty of democracy itself. No Government has ever suffered an electoral defeat. Dictatorial Presidents have either prolonged their own terms by changing the constitution or elected their own straw men with straw votes-or been assassinated, overthrown, exiled or otherwise forcibly liquidated. In the last election the approved candidate, Lazaro Cárdenas, received 1,090,000 votes, while his two opponents received 18,000 and 10,000 respectively...
...reporters returning to Berlin, had they seen grass greener, clouds lovelier, May's tulips more glorious, than in Holland last week. But they could not miss a note of grimness either. Determined Protestants, the Dutch taught all Europe 350 years ago that foreign domination could be resisted and overthrown. For them a Seyss-Inquart is another Duke of Alba...
Peace was indeed being discussed between the belligerents. And the world laughed at the one joke which emerged from a grim week: Joseph Stalin had established contact with Helsinki's Government-which he had said did not exist; it had been "overthrown" by the revolt of the Terijoki People's Government...
...Vatican and the Quirinal, divided by the Tiber River, are linked together by peace and by a common religion of their fathers and ancestors. The Tiber waves have overthrown and sunk the unhappy past so that on the Tiber shores olive branches are now blossoming out. Today the hand of a Roman Pope is lifted for the first time after several decades to bless [this place] as a mark of peace; Italy looks on and exults; the Catholic world looks on and exults; and even the two Princes of the Apostles,* sitting at the en trance of this royal palace...
...seconded by Baron Arnold, who was Under Secretary for Colonies and later Paymaster General in the British Labor Governments of 1924 and 1929. "The policy of a fight to the finish is wrong," cried Lord Arnold, arguing that, if Britain and France continue fighting Germany until the Nazis are overthrown by revolution, the German people will then go Communist and join the Russians in spreading Communism over the whole of Eastern Europe...