Word: praetorianism
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...organized group of citizens has dared stand up against the professional patriots who, like the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire, levy their successive tributes on the public treasury. It appears as if the Veterans of Future Wars in attempting this feat may strangely enough find themselves bearing the cross in one of the most formidable crusades of our times...
...Comrade Yagoda retains direction of most of his old spies, who now become "agents"' of the Commissariat of Interior. He retains command of a large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...
...trouble involved Germany's three unofficial armies: the 2,500,000 common S. A. Storm Troops in brown uniforms; the 200,000 S. S. Storm Troops in black uniforms who constitute the picked, super-drilled Nazi Praetorian Guard; and the 200,000 grey-clad Stahlhelm or war veterans organized and led by onetime Soda-water Tycoon Col. Franz Seldte...
Perhaps because of his personal popularity with the Soviet masses, Klim is often called "Stalin's only rival." Stories constantly circulate that Klim and other Red Army officers strongly resent the privileged position of Stalin's praetorian guard, the OGPU "Special Troops." It has even been stated that the Red Army's rifles are taken away from it every night and locked up in each barracks by the OGPU-doubtless an exaggeration, but not without significance...
...Evangelical Bishop of the State of Prussia (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week Dr. Müller was about to mold what amounted to a new German Evangelical Church. He wanted no trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken churchmen. The militant Saxon theological students were his praetorian guard. Menacingly they faced the famed Castle Church on the doors of which in 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses-the charter of the Reformation. Apprehensively churchmen comprising the Synod of the Evangelical Churches of Germany entered and prayed...