Word: tyrant
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...King Hussein cabled that Nasser's victories must bring "Arabism's hopeful tomorrow when our flag will fly proudly and dearly over the [Palestine] they have stolen from us." The only sour note emanated from a clandestine radio that began calling for "the ouster of the mad tyrant Nasser" and presumably sending code messages to underground agents...
...Communist Party (2,130,000 members) outside the Iron Curtain, had begun to make their own explanations, and to talk recklessly of "polycentrism," i.e., independent policies for each of the world's Communist parties. Togliatti echoed publicly the unsatisfied questions of his own disillusioned followers: How could a tyrant like Stalin come to power under the Communist system? Why had the Kremlin leaders who now denounced Stalin tolerated his tyranny...
Congratulations on the fine and informative April 30 article on Khrushchev. It is a pity that the freedom-loving English invited a tyrant who, in his rise to power, executed millions of Ukrainians who resisted Communism...
...general staff of the world revolution." The Cominform they created, even more than the old Comintern that Stalin had diplomatically dissolved in wartime 1943, failed to set the world on fire. Barely a year later, Tito's Yugoslavia split off from Stalin's world, and the furious tyrant turned the energy of the Cominform to attacking and destroying Tito. It failed at that...
...loyalty oath: "I am walking out. I will return to the University of California, where I shall inform my colleagues that the action you have taken here is tyrannous. I shall also tell them that they should wear their censure proudly as a badge of torture given by a tyrant." Added Frederic Heimberger, professor of political science at Ohio State: "As a member and loyal supporter of the A.A.U.P. for 25 years, I am shocked and dismayed by this action. There was not the slightest semblance of a fair hearing...