Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian politics, he used to rank at least No. 3, after Gandhi and Nehru, and for some he still is No. 1. His theme of Samyavada (equality) with no room for the idle rich has charm for millions of unhappy Indians. He emphasizes a single-party state and authoritarian discipline...
Last week, six days after his Government broke with the Axis (TIME, Feb. 7), Argentine Ambassador Adrian Escobar arrived in Washington. His reception was the coldest the U.S. has given any high Latin American diplomat since the beginning of the Good Neighbor Policy. Reason: Argentina's authoritarian Government still had to show genuine friendship for the U.S., clean out its anti-democratic elements (President Ramirez prevailed upon three notably pro-Nazi Cabinet members to withdraw their resignations...
Small Victory. The United Nations, gained by Argentina's action, but the present Argentine Government also gained. Washed clean of official ties with Nazi Germany, it retains its recognition by the U.S. Thus bolstered, the Ramirez Government might even keep its native authoritarian nationalism and continue to be the infection center of an anti-U.S. bloc in South America...
...small and pathetic pawn; the real protagonist is Argentina. Revolution in Bolivia would have stirred hardly a ripple if it had been solely a Bolivian affair; the U.S. has recognized other juntas, other Fascistlike regimes in Latin America. Even now the issue is not simply that Argentina's authoritarian regime stands accused of sponsoring a similar regime in Bolivia. The issue is that these regimes endanger...
...coup had jangled the alarms in every "Good Neighbor" capital. Only from Argentina, whose authoritarian Government is busily cultivating an anti-U.S. bloc, came published approval. Buenos Aires' pro-Government newspaper El Cabildo could not "disguise our joy" at the revolt, "which had not surprised us. . . . We had expected it." The great democratic papers of Argentina, La Prensa and La Nation did not rejoice. The U.S. State Department, caught with its striped pants down, reserved comment until it could belatedly discover what elements were behind the revolt...