Possible Clues:

• One of those government types with small cool way of keeping the people under the thumb
• Heard talking to the typist from despatch - as a rule it's absolutely awful
• Totalitarian regime
• It's not popular, as a rule
• Stalin's fashionable way of governing
• For police state, dispatch riot formation
• Despotism of Castro hit badly in decline
• Absolute rule
• Administrative machine goes overseas to society with tyrant
• Dispatch riot patrols for absolute rule