Word: authoritarianism
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There was no logical compromise between democratic socialists and authoritarian communists, but there were millions in western Europe who voted Socialist and yet admired both the anti-socialist U.S. and the differently anti-socialist U.S.S.R. In eastern Europe were millions who accepted governments friendly to Russia, yet welcomed a show of U.S. strength to break a Russian strangle hold. Contradictory doctrines lived side by side in the same countries, the same towns and even in the same individuals. (In Slovakia some Catholic priests were writing articles for Moscow's Pravda...
Cried Léon Jouhaux's C.G.T.: De Gaulle's action was "authoritarian." Then, setting what might well be the leftist electoral line, it called on Frenchmen and Frenchwomen to vote "no" to the second question in the referendum...
...Gawd Bless You All!" The fight on Monday, April 30, over the admission of authoritarian Argentina was another real crisis. Molotov saw his chance and took it; the U.S., having made the Latin countries support the earlier admission of Russia's Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics, was committed to bring Argentina in, too. Although the Russians were roundly beaten on the vote, they looked as happy as a tiger that had swallowed a young parrot. They had a moral issue that they could use forever after...
Last week the possibility of World War III was more & more in the horrified world's public eye. That there were those who looked upon war between the democratic, capitalist U.S. and authoritarian, Communist Russia as "inevitable" was no longer news. The news was the extraordinary number of spokesmen in both countries who, admitting the profound differences between them, insisted that war was repressible...
...scientists' answer: German traditions and institutions have bred into the individual German an aggressive concern about his "status" or position. In the family, the father has long been absolute master, sternly dominating his wife and children. Business, the professions, politics and education have likewise been ruled by an authoritarian system in which, to assert and defend his status, a German bullies his inferiors, kowtows to his superiors. "The German alternately commands and scrapes." Unlike Americans and Englishmen, who consider it unsporting to exert their full strength against weaker opponents, Germans are traditionally most brutal and ruthless toward their inferiors...