Word: authoritarianism
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...Cardinal Siri, 52, Archbishop of Genoa, once known as the "minestrone cardinal" for his soup-kitchen relief work on his city's Communist-infested docks, is noted for his administrative talent and a belief in paternalism toward the workers. He also has a reputation for being severe and authoritarian in manner, is the youngest cardinal...
...spring sunshine of Cape Town strode the man they had just elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa to succeed the late Johannes Strijdom. White-haired, pink-cheeked Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (pronounced Fair Voort) looked more like an off-duty Santa Claus than a hard-fisted authoritarian. Yet in his eight years as Minister of Native Affairs, he had proved himself pre-eminent among all the racists crowding the South African stage...
...teen-ager when Fascism began, he saw the corporate state as the ideal, and in what he calls a "temporary aberration" turned to Fascism. "Some day," he once wrote, "the European continent will be organized into a vast supranational area guided by Italy and Germany. Those areas will take authoritarian governments and synchronize their constitutions with Fascist principles...
...parental influence is unavoidable; and in some communities it is the only factor which preserves any sort of decent education. But if parental interests do not co-operate with school and public interests, little progress is possible; and if they co-operate in the wrong way, a stultifying and authoritarian atmosphere may result...
...crowding of the planet means authoritarian rule because "the central government is forced to assume additional responsibilities for the general welfare." Wrote Huxley: "It is a pretty safe bet that, twenty years from now, all the world's overpopulated and underdeveloped countries will be under some form of totalitarian rule." While man is cluttering the earth with his birth rate, he is also following a "Will to Order," the fundamental wish for harmony that softens him for the propagandists of authority...