Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soule warned of an impending, economic crisis which could demolish the American liberal tradition and force other democratic nations dependent on America, to turn to authoritarian governments in their search for security...
...personnel, allows hearings at which the applicant and counsel may be present, establishes criteria of disloyalty, and permits appeal of two levels within the semi-judicial structure of the "Loyalty Review Board," now to be a part of the Civil Service Commission. It establishes uniform procedures where authoritarian secrecy existed before...
This implies a paternalistic (or authoritarian) society in which the only vital components are men and land. Says Chiang: "The economic duties of the Government are twofold: to satisfy the people's wants, and at the same time restrict them. The former involves positive support, the latter precautionary control. . . . The application of these principles in social, political and economic organization will result in correct systems and policies...
...great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President's bill and it died. The whole affair ended in a kind of shocked and shamefaced silence...
...mission urged the U.S. to make all German secondary schools tuition-free, root out the old caste distinctions. Said the report: "This system has cultivated attitudes of superiority in one small group and inferiority in the majority of the members of German society, making [them perfect material] upon which authoritarian leadership has thrived...