Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian "smiles'" approach, while useful on the world scene, tends to create a demand for freedom both at home and in the satellites, and the Communist Party cannot keep appeasing the demand without jeopardizing its rule. Furthermore, the Soviet policy of economic aid to non-Communist nations has not led swiftly to the political conquests the Kremlin seeks (it is noteworthy that Nasser returned to Egypt full of Russian propaganda backing but saying nothing about getting any rubles). It has also become clear that Russia cannot whistle up a summit conference on its terms alone...
...rigidly required to be loyal. Since, to the Marxist, the new society was the inevitable result of the inexorable evolution of natural law, Marxism appeared to be a triumph of science, and science in turn became a Marxist cult. In 1934 French Statesman Edouard Herriot observed that "Soviet rule has bestowed upon science all the authority of which it deprived religion...
...candidates for this year's presidential election, scheduled for June 8, are Salazar's man, Admiral Americo Tomas, who is not even bothering to campaign, a left-wing lawyer named Arlindo Vicente, and the rule-breaking Humberto Delgado. An Air Force general who long and loyally served the regime ("A government of tyranny. I know. I was in it for 30 years"), Delgado, 52, spent the last five years in the U.S. as Portuguese Military Representative to NATO. His handshaking, baby-kissing tactics may result from his having witnessed two U.S. presidential elections, but his tubthumping, demagogic oratory...
...unquestioned devoutness is a target in a campaign marked by anticlerical attacks. His New-Dealish social program makes him unpalatable to conservative Christian Democrats. His all-out organizing methods antagonize the other democratic middle-road parties, whose support has been essential to Christian Democratic rule since 1953 (he lasted only twelve days in his one fling at the premiership four years ago). A recent poll showed that not Fanfani, the party leader, but former Premier and now Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella is the most popular Christian Democrat in Italy...
Control. In an Italy prosperous and generally content, the Christian Democrats were expected to lead next week's election returns, but not even Fanfani foresees a majority that would allow his party to rule alone. Under new election laws, the Christian Democrats must win almost a million more votes than in 1953 just to hold the 261 seats they now have in the Chamber of Deputies. They are in the awkward position of asking Italians to vote for a party that does not yet know whom it will nominate for Premier. Adone Zoli, the present caretaker Premier, has indicated...