Word: authoritarianism
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Nation's Spearhead. The philosophy behind the S.A.O. is a muddle of authoritarian, imperialist and populist ideas. S.A.O. propaganda is the sort often found in flights from reality?orotund, florid, declamatory, and so ecstatic as to approach hysteria. Communists delight in identifying themselves historically with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome?or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams...
...explosive, six-week crisis verging often near the flash point of civil war. Last month Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria-with an assist from Washington, which stationed warships and marines off the Dominican coast-became heroes for a day by blocking a comeback coup by two Trujillo brothers. But their authoritarian rule still did not meet the nation's hankering for freedom. The opposition National Civic Union, a moderate group, demanded that Balaguer and Rodriguez Echavarria themselves abandon power. At first the two Trujillo holdovers refused. It remained for two unlikely go-betweens to bring about a settlement-Luis Amiama...
...report was strong in defense of human and political rights, warning that "government without consent of the governed cannot be approved by Christians in our time." But in an appraisal of problems faced by new nations, it admitted the likelihood of "emergencies" that "seem to call for temporary authoritarian regimes." "Some of these systems," it said, "are more authoritarian than those whose outlook has been molded by the Western tradition of democracy would find acceptable for themselves. Yet the difficulty of maintaining order . . . may call for new forms of political life...
...appealed to the neutral nations who mistakenly "believe that the U.N. can somehow accommodate this unbridled power" and warned that they were making a tragic mistake if they yielded to "the claims of an aggressive and unregenerate" Red China, that still acts "in a fashion recalling the early authoritarian Emperors." It would be, he added, "ignoring the warlike character and aggressive behavior of the rulers who . . . talk of the inevitability of war as an article of faith and refuse to renounce the use of force...
Yugoslavia is confidently moving toward a social order that rejects both the Authoritarian Communism of Russia and the classical constitutionalism of the West, a visiting Yugoslavian journalist explained to the Dunster House Forum last night. Jaka Stular, managing editor of Tovaris, a weekly magazine roughly equivalent Like, took particular pains to emphasize that Yugoslavia is attempting to institute completely new type of freedom." It is a freedom based on the citizen as a proper rather than as a political unit, in recognition of Marx's emphasis on economics. In opposition to the Russian version of economic development, Yugoslavia "recognizes...