Word: authoritarianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said the report: "Under an authoritarian regime disturbances may be minimized, though never entirely prevented, by the constant threat of imprisonment or death." But the experiences of democracies "discredit the naive and widely-held view that the remedy for strikes is simply to prohibit them. In a democratic country the main responsibility for strike prevention must rest with the parties to industry...
...story around Washington, President Arias stood in Panama City's National Stadium before 30,000 of his countrymen, South America's youngest President in the nation's first open-air Presidential inauguration. He promised "peace and friendship to all nations," Pan-American solidarity. Nearest approach to authoritarian discrimination was his suggestion that a democratic electorate should be composed of the educated...
...rousing shout to the proletariat to throw off its chains. Meanwhile Marx organized the First International, fought everybody else who tried to suggest anything, wrecked it when he could no longer control it. Says Wilson: "Marx was incapable of imagining democracy at all. He had been bred in an authoritarian country...
...officials of conquered France worked like beavers last week. Their apologists swore they were not Fascists, but every effort they launched was calculated to fit their battered rump of a nation into the familiar authoritarian pattern of government by suppression, censorship, alibis, purges. Echoes of "Heads will roll" Hitlerism were heard from Paris to Marseille as the Petain Government announced that onetime Premier Edouard Daladier, onetime Interior Minister Georges Mandel, onetime Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, onetime Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and numerous other pre-Petain Government leaders were under arrest and would be tried and punished because "they threw...
...Little Man that he was pictured by Cartoonist Herblock of the Pittsburgh Press. Friend of France with kind words for harassed Marshal Pétain was Catholic Monsignor Mark Boehm. Writing in Rome for the Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, Mgr. Boehm saw "the good Marshal" using an authoritarian regime to create "a civic conscience that opens and prepares the way for ... strengthening the moral conscience. . . ." Praise from the Vatican newspaper was the next best thing to a blessing by the Pope, but it sounded strange other than as a good-will gesture toward what remains of France. Marshal Petain...