Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hemisphere's No. 1 authoritarian was back in power...
...however long he might manage to make good his return to power, was no puppet on a string. If the Braden policy had a fault, it was the easy assumption that because Perón was a bad authoritarian, he had no roots in the country he ruled. Last week's anticlimax proved that he did have roots, of a sort. His enemies would do well to ponder and understand Argentina before they tried again...
This struggle against the King and authoritarian regimes sobered Damaskinos, tempered his enthusiasms. In the monastery Damaskinos developed his only hobby: a friend from Chicago sent him a portable harmonium, and the lonely cleric, with his pet goat and dog beside him, learned to pick out the weirdly beautiful Gregorian chants...
There was no logical compromise between democratic socialists and authoritarian communists, but there were millions in western Europe who voted Socialist and yet admired both the anti-socialist U.S. and the differently anti-socialist U.S.S.R. In eastern Europe were millions who accepted governments friendly to Russia, yet welcomed a show of U.S. strength to break a Russian strangle hold. Contradictory doctrines lived side by side in the same countries, the same towns and even in the same individuals. (In Slovakia some Catholic priests were writing articles for Moscow's Pravda...
Cried Léon Jouhaux's C.G.T.: De Gaulle's action was "authoritarian." Then, setting what might well be the leftist electoral line, it called on Frenchmen and Frenchwomen to vote "no" to the second question in the referendum...