Word: authoritarianism
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...great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President's bill and it died. The whole affair ended in a kind of shocked and shamefaced silence...
...mission urged the U.S. to make all German secondary schools tuition-free, root out the old caste distinctions. Said the report: "This system has cultivated attitudes of superiority in one small group and inferiority in the majority of the members of German society, making [them perfect material] upon which authoritarian leadership has thrived...
...nine-year period of authoritarian government started by President Getulio Vargas had given way to parliamentary rule. The new constitution was not bad, not good; everything depended on how it would be applied...
...incapable of becoming totalitarian robots, were not taking and would not take much downtreading from socialists or anybody else. Some might mutter that Morrison wanted to be a policeman "like his father." But Morrison knows his Britain; he put up a sign in London classrooms expressing a most anti-authoritarian sentiment: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
Another of Europe's little kings last week toppled from a theoretical throne. In Tirana, a Constituent Assembly announced the end of the 17-year-old Albanian monarchy, proclaimed a republic under leftist, authoritarian Premier Enver Hoxha. The announcement was followed by a lavish 101-gun salute and two days of public revelry...