Word: authoritarianism
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...President campaign got under way with an inevitable about-face last week. First, Juan Domingo Perón admitted that he actually was a candidate (in April he had said: "I will energetically oppose every move ... to make me a candidate"). Then, in the best authoritarian tradition, he unveiled an official party (called the Radical Labor Movement), harangued a multitude with promises of social reform. Hitler-like, he even named his political heirs...
...listed three possible alternatives, rejected two of them: i) a policy of all-out "secrecy and suppression" would make the U.S. Government authoritarian, restrict science and research, stimulate a disastrous race for atomic power; 2) open-handed sharing of all U.S. knowledge, and unbridled reliance on good faith, would be equally disastrous. Said Stassen: "All of history says that good faith alone is not sufficient for peaceful relationships between...
...Hemisphere's No. 1 authoritarian was back in power...
...however long he might manage to make good his return to power, was no puppet on a string. If the Braden policy had a fault, it was the easy assumption that because Perón was a bad authoritarian, he had no roots in the country he ruled. Last week's anticlimax proved that he did have roots, of a sort. His enemies would do well to ponder and understand Argentina before they tried again...
This struggle against the King and authoritarian regimes sobered Damaskinos, tempered his enthusiasms. In the monastery Damaskinos developed his only hobby: a friend from Chicago sent him a portable harmonium, and the lonely cleric, with his pet goat and dog beside him, learned to pick out the weirdly beautiful Gregorian chants...