The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-09
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS

NEW 1Ohh WI - what ulnhCS
and breaks a dictator?
The death of Joseph Stain leaves
the average man wondering:
"What makes a guy like that
anyway? I wouldn't have lived his
life for all the gold in Fl. Knox"
He feels that dictator is
freak offshoot Of some kind, only
rarely to be reckoned with. The
truth is the human race has been
afflicted through all time by die
tators, large and small. II still is,
it perhaps always win be.
The ordinary man can look
around his own small world and
count any number of seeding die
tators, spoiled child, domineering
wife, q ow-beating husband, an
overly stern schoolteacher, the lit
tie straw bosses Of business and
the ward bosses Of politics, the
petty tyrant bureaucrat, an Off
cious cop, brass-happy officer in
the armed forces.
How do they differ from Stain,
Hitler, or Mussolini? Only in de-
gree. They lack the brains, energy
or courage to extend their domi-
nance. But they are linked to Stall
In, Hitler and Napoleon by the
same basic drive, love of power.
Most people like to love and be
loved, to hate q little, TO rule and
be ruled, to have enough prestige
to make them feel good-but not
at the price of too much response
bility.
And they find il difficult TO be-
lieve anyone would want power for
the sake Of power alone.
But dictators, great or small. do.
The ability to exercise pure naked
power Is to them food, wine. love
and money. To gain power they viii
sacrifice on the altar Of their ego
all other human satisfactions Of
body and spirit.
All dictators, in homes. school.
rooms or vast empires, also use
the same excuse in their lust to
gain and hold power: 81 am not
doing this for myself. II Is for your
welfare | do these things" Dicta-
tors are always selEess in their
own stupendously blind eyes. To
them their aims are always pure
and great.
Thus Napoleon wrecked . cont.
lnent with incessant wars, drained
French manhood Of most of It's
blood. and al he was really trying
20 do The said) was to create a
peaceful Europe. Thus a domineeF-
ing mother makes q stranger Of
her husband and drives her chill
dren from her home, and cannot
understand II, because. II only
tried TO make them do what /
thought was best for them. And II
they had only done IL. everything
would have turned cut all right =
What destroys dictatorx7 Their
eaomania usually carries them too
far, their excuses become too
much for the people to bear. and
they meet the fate Of Mere. Or. like
Hitler and Muxsolini. they are de-
luded into believing that because
they are skilled In politics they
also are masters Of war. They get
10 thinking they can do anything
And who is to tell them they ezn't2
In this respect Stain il the most
successful dictator Of m dern
tines. he pitted his enemies
against each other rather than
aaainst him. He kept a mols like
sense 81 caution 70 the end.
Dietasors on thrones or In pnl.
pits. Ii kitchens Or clAssrooms. 81
factory benches or executive desks.
usually share one ether shing they
are lonely. dissrnsstai men and
wamea.
Fer there isn's RON ID ~ hu
man hesrt for hssh ne love II
poser ard Ire lore IL l0se ssassf
Most people prefer scvs Il pgwer
r. they didEt tkere wua - co
humaE race.