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Show i Safe For Dictators j Ten years ago we thought that the I World War had been fought to make : the world safe for democracy. It now - looks as though it made the world safe for autocracy. The intervening ten I years have seen the rise of dictators it j many lands, and their tribe seems increase. I Mussolini in Italy, de Rivera ir , Spain, Kemal in Turkey, Pilsudski In i Poland, Valdemaras in Lithuania, zogi; i in Albania, and now Alevander in Ju-go-Slavia have seized supreme power and the first three have maintained jit for a considerable period. In Russia Rus-sia the dictatorship of Stalin, although camouflaged by a pretense of popular I approval, is more oppressive than that I'of the former czars. Carmona became 'virtually the dictator of Portugal In 1926. In several Latin-American countries coun-tries the government is almost completely com-pletely dominated by the individual who happens to be president for the time being. So, looking back over the record of the past decade, one is forced to admit that if democracy was at stake in the World War, it fared rather badly. |