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When private force failed, employers persuaded local and state governments to suspend due process of law, arrest suspected troublemakers, initiate mass deportations, and crush strikes with National Guardsmen--using what Commons and his associates called all "the paraphernalia of dictatorship."
Between 1936 and 1940 Greece was under the military dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas, remembered for the resounding óchi (“no”) he gave in reply to Mussolini’s ultimatum to surrender in 1940.
Neither constitutional government nor dictatorship proved workable, and in 1931 the king went into exile following anti-royalist results in municipal elections.
"The passing of the reins to his son, King Mohammed VI, brings grounds for hope that the concept of kingliness will not be synonymous with dictatorship," it added.
Under King Alfonso XIII neither dictatorship nor constitutional government was able to create and sustain domestic tranquillity, with the result that following anti-royalist election results in 1931 the king went into exile.