Word: zar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...
...strongest terms the Vatican had used since the invasion of Poland. Text for the castigation was an editorial from Catholic Spain-which Pius XII is presumably as anxious as U. S. and British Catholics to keep out of the arms of the Axis. The Madrid Alcázar had written: "National Socialism is primarily a religious movement based on Christian principle." Said the Vatican radio in trenchant rebuttal...