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Politically, as the balance of world recognition continues shifting from Chiang to Mao, it becomes doubtful that 2,000,000 mainland refugees can continue indefinitely their authoritarian rule over 12 million Taiwanese. Many Taiwanese, descendants of early settlers from Kwangtung and Fukien provinces, want self-government, but when they rebelled in 1947, Chiang's troops massacred about 10,000 of them...
...harsh totalitarian rule." In what ways is the North "totalitarian"--the word soon loses all meaning--compared to the police state of the South? At another point, Ulam writes, "A totalitarian regime, especially a Communist one, seldom has much difficulty in repressing a budding guerrilla movement....An authoritarian non-Communist regime can sometimes deal with an incipient revolt with the same massive retaliation technique....A democratic country simply cannot have recourse to such methods." One wonders if Ulam has heard of saturation bombing. Does he read the newspapers? Or does he glean his Indochina analysis from Presidential television speeches...
...president of Young's Alleghany Corp., the holding company that controlled the New York Central Railroad and still controls Investors Diversified Services. In 1967 he moved to ITT as special assistant to Chairman Harold Geneen, but ITT insiders say that he did not cotton to Geneen's authoritarian ways and had been looking around for some time...
...took form in the 1880s, when the first waves of midwestern farmers arrived by the trainload. What they sought in L.A. was not urbanity but a continuation of their dispersed, self-reliant way of life. Thus, Banham says, "Los Angeles is the Middle West raised to the flashpoint, the authoritarian dogmas of the Bible Belt and the perennial revolt against them colliding at critical mass under the palm trees. Out of it comes a cultural situation where only the extreme is normal." To reinforce that pattern, Hollywood bloomed in the 1920s, adding a permanent "population of genius, neurosis, skill, charlatanry...
Grunberger thinks that the pre-Hitler Weimar Republic applied the merest veneer of democracy over what remained basically an authoritarian state. Thus the mass of Germans easily accepted dictatorship. Within a year after Hitler became Chancellor, the birth rate, which is normally a sure index of public confidence, rose by 22%. Crime dropped off noticeably after 1933. War preparations and economic recovery did away with joblessness. Living standards improved under the peacetime Third Reich; food shortages did not become severe until 1943, the fourth year...