Word: authoritarianism
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...strange that I should have paid out money to meet a paper's deficit without throwing my weight around. ... I do not . . . find it so. ... Occasionally I sit in on editorial conferences, but I do so strictly as an observer. ... I have no editorial control. ... An anti-authoritarian paper had, of necessity, to be dominated by its own staff." Does PM's excitability disturb him? Field says: "Restraint is not always a virtue when crying injustice needs to be met head on. ... A certain lack of gentlemanliness is a requisite of democracy. Gentlemen are comfortable associates, but they...
Unequivocal disapproval came last week from one of the top archbishops in the U.S. hierarchy. To the clergy of Cincinnati, from whom authoritarian Archbishop John Timothy McNicholas, 67, demands implicit obedience, came an archdiocesan letter which minced no words...
...last week Buenos Aires seethed with war rumors. By becoming an ally, Argentina might silence (as had Brazil and others) all criticism of her authoritarian regime. President Edelmiro Farrell called his Ministers to the Casa Rosada for a special Cabinet session. Ships of the Argentine state merchant fleet were ordered to scurry for the nearest safe ports. Perón himself rushed to the great Campo de Mayo barracks on Buenos Aires' outskirts, pleaded with the pro-Nazi officer group to agree to war, at least against Japan...
Moral Athletes. The essential faith of America came into being in the cold, clearheaded, spacious world of Puritan New England. Authoritarian though theocracy was, moral martinets though they sometimes became, the Puritans sailed their ships into the open seas. They cultivated their moral strength like athletes training, and they used that strength out of doors, in the world, as statesmen and soldiers. "We are still drawing upon the reserves of spiritual vigor which they accumulated...
...actions, the Broederbond has only 2,672 members after 26 years of existence. But all of them are handpicked, fanatical, British-hating Afrikaners. Most of them are professional people. Their slogan is "Weg met die Brit" (Down with the Briton). The Broederbond wants a strictly authoritarian republic run by a one-party Afrikaans Volksraad (People's Council), headed by an Afrikaner president. English would not be recognized as an official language nor would English-speaking South Africans be recognized as ware (true) Afrikaners...