Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about that time, with some Sunday articles in mind and looking for an angle, that he made what he thought was a major discovery. He had begun his search by dividing the contemporary world into two parts-into the democracies where the state existed for man, into the authoritarian governments where man existed for the state. To Reporter Streit an arresting fact emerged: the democracies controlled two-thirds of the world's trade, most of the world's natural resources. The democracies owned the earth and didn't know it. The totalitarian nations depended upon them...
...devoted and loyal men united at a university for a special purpose, "governed by its own traditions and perpetrated by its own rules, yet given a recognized status by a higher authority, must be an unconscious agent for the spread of ideas hostile to all forms of tyranny. No authoritarian state, past, present or future could tolerate for long such foci of anti-totalitarian infection...