Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lingering misgivings. He deplored the Kuomintang's insistence on one party, its rigid repression of criticism ("On the whole there is much more freedom here than on the mainland, but I would like to see still more freedom of the press and person in Taiwan"), on its authoritarian "obey the leader" doctrine. That Hu Shih could say these things when and where he did was some testimonial to Formosa's freedom, and one reason he had made his choice. The problem was to extend that freedom to less distinguished critics...
...come a cropper. Four years ago Shishekly seized power, ending the series of coups that had produced 16 governments in the first three years of Syrian independence from French rule. He did not want to be a man-on-horseback; he regarded himself, he said, as a sort of authoritarian custodian until his people could be "entrusted with power." He made grand plans for reforms, but initiated few of them...
...obtaining his material, Fainsod found that most of the Soviet emigres reflect unconsciously the authoritarian influence of their training. They think, he observes, in black and white, and have a tendency toward paternalistic controls...
...Shah, a shy and gentle young man, repeatedly says that he intends to be a conscientiously constitutional monarch, not an authoritarian like his famed father, Reza Shah Pahlevi, father of modern Iran. But the vast reforms needed to ease Iranians' poverty and the decisive acts necessary to check the underground plotting of the Red-led Tudeh and the supporters of old Mossadegh, must be accomplished fast to save Iran from fresh rebellion and capture by Russia. The new Shah's most immutable enemy is time...
...regime of a remarkable man, Brigadier Shishekly, a dictator who is shy, honest and levelheaded. The man behind Syria's weak parliamentary regime since 1949, and Syria's out-in-the-open dictator for the past 18 months, Shishekly regards himself as a kind of authoritarian trustee until the people can be "entrusted with power." The new constitution reflects his temperament as well as his views. Unlike Syria's previous constitutions, which were copied from the French and brought on parliamentary chaos, the new one is in the stable American style. It provides for three government branches...