Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story around Washington, President Arias stood in Panama City's National Stadium before 30,000 of his countrymen, South America's youngest President in the nation's first open-air Presidential inauguration. He promised "peace and friendship to all nations," Pan-American solidarity. Nearest approach to authoritarian discrimination was his suggestion that a democratic electorate should be composed of the educated...
...officials of conquered France worked like beavers last week. Their apologists swore they were not Fascists, but every effort they launched was calculated to fit their battered rump of a nation into the familiar authoritarian pattern of government by suppression, censorship, alibis, purges. Echoes of "Heads will roll" Hitlerism were heard from Paris to Marseille as the Petain Government announced that onetime Premier Edouard Daladier, onetime Interior Minister Georges Mandel, onetime Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, onetime Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and numerous other pre-Petain Government leaders were under arrest and would be tried and punished because "they threw...
...member of the Commission, to negotiate with General Alfred von Vollard Bockelberg, the German military governor of the Paris region. Nazis were in no hurry to arrange the transfer. For one thing, they could still detect a faint, sweet odor of republicanism in Pétain's authoritarian regime. Then there was the problem of finding quarters: most of the old Government's buildings in Paris and Versailles were occupied by Germans...
...Little Man that he was pictured by Cartoonist Herblock of the Pittsburgh Press. Friend of France with kind words for harassed Marshal Pétain was Catholic Monsignor Mark Boehm. Writing in Rome for the Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, Mgr. Boehm saw "the good Marshal" using an authoritarian regime to create "a civic conscience that opens and prepares the way for ... strengthening the moral conscience. . . ." Praise from the Vatican newspaper was the next best thing to a blessing by the Pope, but it sounded strange other than as a good-will gesture toward what remains of France. Marshal Petain...
...component of the Fascist State, the single party, promptly made its appearance. Deputy Marcel Déat ("I do not want to die for Danzig") announced that he had declined a Cabinet post, instead would form a French Uniform Party to support Leader-Designate Laval "which would place an authoritarian people's movement at the side of the authoritarian regime." Party planks: 1) France must do nothing to compete with German industry; 2) compulsory labor service for youth; 3) "France for the French...