Word: authoritarianism
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Among the many things that Darlan's death changed, one was the world standing of General Giraud. It was a slow and curious transition, and it was not all brought about by Giraud himself. Partly because of his own predilections and tendencies toward authoritarian ways, more because of the still cloudy policy of the U.S., the stench of Darlan along with his mantle seemed to shift to Giraud. Did he, Giraud, not harbor and use the same Vichyites whom Darlan had placed or kept in power? So, for weeks, it seemed to the world...
Paraguay under General Higinio Morinigo's authoritarian Government was, beyond a formal affirmation of solidarity, strangely silent. Like Bolivia. Paraguay is completely hemmed in by neighbor nations. It is in close proximity to centers of German population in southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina...
...series of related episodes, How Green lacks the dramatic vigor of a unified story, but it has a kind of sustained theme in the relationship of Huw to his family. His innocent eyes watch his Godfearing, authoritarian father (Donald Crisp) turn a deaf ear to the rumblings of 19th-Century labor disputes; his honest, hardworking brothers forced by cheap labor to quit the mine and emigrate to the U.S.; his beauteous sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) marry the mine owner's son after the village cleric (Walter Pidgeon) stoically refuses to have her share his poverty; his good...
While not exactly ominous, the narrator's voice has an authoritarian quality that commands attention, just as Gabriel's trumpet will one day bid us drop whatever we are doing and listen...
...Said the Vichy-inspired Temps last week: "When one probes to the bottom of things it is evident that the present crisis reduces itself to the opposition of two systems, one based on the principle of liberty, of which America proclaims herself the champion; the other guided by an authoritarian doctrine, of which Germany is the protagonist. Today the latter wins the day in Europe, since the armies of the Reich occupy the greater part of the continent...