Word: authoritarianism
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...three Regions-tribes-parties, balance each other off, prevent the domination of the country by any one element, and work to maintain a great measure of constitutional compromise. Although a number of the younger politically-minded people have been much influenced by the prevailing African drift toward one-party authoritarian national government, the internal division of forces tends to bolster constitutionalism and democracy by providing a built-in opposition. It remains to be seen whether it also provides, as some accuse it of doing, a built-in barrier to decisive and constructive action...
There was rejoicing in Belgium, which has not had a reigning queen since Baudouin's popular mother, the lovely Astrid of Sweden, was killed in a 1935 Swiss auto accident. It was hoped that marriage would mellow the taciturn and glumly authoritarian manner of King Baudouin, and the royal wedding would help take Belgian minds off the bloody catastrophe of the Congo. The rest of the world experienced the warming reaction that seems to come, especially to democratic nations, with every pomp and circumstance of vanishing royalty. In this case there was a special cause for cheers: the Cinderella...
Isolated Addis Ababa seemed an odd place for the hot-eyed young nationalists to hold their big conference of independent African states. Many were irked at having to bow and scrape before their host, Emperor Haile Selassie, whose regime is one of Africa's most authoritarian. But the Lion of Judah had worked hard to make his capital presentable. The girls who staff the city's 5,000 bordellos were ordered not to call to passing delegates. Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep...
DURING the turbulent fortnight preceding President Eisenhower's declaration that "a world of open societies" is a major U.S. goal, many voices in the West bemoaned the strategic disadvantages of an open society in competition with a closed, authoritarian society. In justifying the null need to send U25 flying over Russia, U.S. spokesmen repeatedly pointed to the great advantage of secrecy that Iron Curtains bestow7-almost as if Iron Curtains were something to envy. Temporarily forgotten was the balancing fact that closed societies have their competitive disadvantages, too-and open societies their competitive advantages...
...became the dominant religion in the U.S., would the church deny non-Catholics the right to propagate their faiths? No, say both Bennett and Schlesinger. Theologian Bennett gives two reasons: 1) Catholics in democratic countries have come to see that the church does better where it does not assert authoritarian influence than in places such as Spain and Latin America; 2) more and more Catholic scholars and church leaders are coming to accept religious liberty as a matter of principle. Schlesinger feels that "most Catholic leaders have honestly accepted the pluralism of American society...