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After a decade of hard fighting, Juan Perón has routed most of his enemies, and the result has been obvious of late in the changed atmosphere of Argentine politics. No longer so bitter against those who have opposed him, the Strongman seems 100% sure of himself, so sure that at times he appears to have only a relaxed interest in problems of state. But such unwonted easiness and good feeling on the part of their long-embattled President has evidently set some Argentines to wondering...
Worst of all, the reluctant strongman's experiment in democracy had come a cropper. Four years ago Shishekly seized power, ending the series of coups that had produced 16 governments in the first three years of Syrian independence from French rule. He did not want to be a man-on-horseback; he regarded himself, he said, as a sort of authoritarian custodian until his people could be "entrusted with power." He made grand plans for reforms, but initiated few of them...
Some of his officers begged Shishekly to go back to being a strongman, but he had taken a calculated gamble: if Syria could ride out the crisis without returning to police-state methods, democracy would be on its way. While Shishekly lingered and hoped, the opposition prepared. In June the ousted politicos - extreme right-wing ers, moderates, left Socialists, and the old Druze chieftain, Sultan Pasha el Atrash - met secretly, organized the Popular Bloc, and agreed to bury their hatchet -in Shishekly's back. Still Shishekly did nothing. Three weeks ago, emboldened, the Popular Bloc plotted the final...
...minutes, the couple chatted at the bedside of President Naguib who, in pajamas and dressing gown, was recovering from flu. "A great man," said Bevan later. "Very charming," added Jennie, "very charming." For another hour they had an audience with Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, Vice Premier and strongman of the military regime, who recited Egypt's argument on the Suez issue. "I merely listened," reported Bevan...
...that my arrest has been a "big headache" for the U.S. State Department because "Latin Americans . . . would unfailingly interpret it as overt U.S. support of Strongman Batista." If the policy which seems to have dictated my arrest is continued, however, this "headache" will prove indeed to be a very minor one-not only for the State Department, but for the American people. They may awake one day to realize that the support of corrupt, bloody and hated dictators like Batista, who ran on a Communist "popular front" in 1940, supported a Communist coalition in 1944, and was elected largely with...