Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Buenos Aires seethed with war rumors. By becoming an ally, Argentina might silence (as had Brazil and others) all criticism of her authoritarian regime. President Edelmiro Farrell called his Ministers to the Casa Rosada for a special Cabinet session. Ships of the Argentine state merchant fleet were ordered to scurry for the nearest safe ports. Perón himself rushed to the great Campo de Mayo barracks on Buenos Aires' outskirts, pleaded with the pro-Nazi officer group to agree to war, at least against Japan...
Moral Athletes. The essential faith of America came into being in the cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England. Authoritarian though theocracy was, moral martinets though they sometimes became, the Puritans sailed their ships into the open seas. They cultivated their moral strength like athletes training, and they used that strength out of doors, in the world, as statesmen and soldiers. "We are still drawing upon the reserves of spiritual vigor which they accumulated...
...actions, the Broederbond has only 2,672 members after 26 years of existence. But all of them are handpicked, fanatical, British-hating Afrikaners. Most of them are professional people. Their slogan is "Weg met die Brit" (Down with the Briton). The Broederbond wants a strictly authoritarian republic run by a one-party Afrikaans Volksraad (People's Council), headed by an Afrikaner president. English would not be recognized as an official language nor would English-speaking South Africans be recognized as ware (true) Afrikaners...
Newsmen who want an unrestricted flow of news between nations in the postwar world got good news last week. To most, the press law adopted by the De Gaulle government at Algiers last July, restricting the flow of world news into liberated France, sounded dangerously authoritarian. In Paris last week André La Guerre, director of the foreign press services of the French Commissariat of Information, announced that distribution of world news to French papers was no longer a monopoly of the official French Press Agency. That right, said La Guerre, has been extended to all news agencies...
...guest speaker pointed to flaws in both positions. Examining the Hutchins, or scholastic school, he found that it became "authoritarian, bookish," and, in addition, "fell in love with its own perfection." On the other hand, he called the scientific or modern method, "anti-rational," "unreflective." "We have science without philosophy...