Word: authoritarianism
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Newsmen who want an unrestricted flow of news between nations in the postwar world got good news last week. To most, the press law adopted by the De Gaulle government at Algiers last July, restricting the flow of world news into liberated France, sounded dangerously authoritarian. In Paris last week André La Guerre, director of the foreign press services of the French Commissariat of Information, announced that distribution of world news to French papers was no longer a monopoly of the official French Press Agency. That right, said La Guerre, has been extended to all news agencies...
...guest speaker pointed to flaws in both positions. Examining the Hutchins, or scholastic school, he found that it became "authoritarian, bookish," and, in addition, "fell in love with its own perfection." On the other hand, he called the scientific or modern method, "anti-rational," "unreflective." "We have science without philosophy...
...freedom by providing for regional press and information committees from which authorization must be secured for the publication of all newspapers and magazines. And in July it set up the French Press Agency, which will have exclusive rights to distribute all news inside France. Though these edicts sound dangerously authoritarian, in view of the record they are probably justified as temporary measures. The new rules should go far to make them unnecessary. Applying to all publications in the new France, they provide that...
...authoritarian Buenos Aires last week one Jordan Bruno Genta, slim, bespectacled director of the new Teachers' School, addressed 25,000 teachers who had been required to attend on threat of dismissal. They listened glumly as he cried: "The pernicious influence of John Dewey . . . must be eradicated from Argentina's schools. . . . The progressive school must be replaced by the traditional school...
...adjusted some of the details of his authoritarian rule to popular preferences. He was even willing to consider the necessities of hemispheric diplomacy. After the U.S. and Great Britain recalled their ambassadors last fortnight, Perón did not fly into a supernationalist rage. He cooed, and turned the U.S.-British pressure to good account in his feud with Perlinger...