Word: authoritarianism
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...member of the Commission, to negotiate with General Alfred von Vollard Bockelberg, the German military governor of the Paris region. Nazis were in no hurry to arrange the transfer. For one thing, they could still detect a faint, sweet odor of republicanism in Pétain's authoritarian regime. Then there was the problem of finding quarters: most of the old Government's buildings in Paris and Versailles were occupied by Germans...
...component of the Fascist State, the single party, promptly made its appearance. Deputy Marcel Déat ("I do not want to die for Danzig") announced that he had declined a Cabinet post, instead would form a French Uniform Party to support Leader-Designate Laval "which would place an authoritarian people's movement at the side of the authoritarian regime." Party planks: 1) France must do nothing to compete with German industry; 2) compulsory labor service for youth; 3) "France for the French...
...Caudillo reviewed 15,000 troops marching through the flag-bedecked but still war-scarred streets. Behind the troops marched column after column of Falangists, led by Franco's brother-in-law Ramon Serrano Suñer, chanting their battle song, Face to the Sun. Fighting planes roared overhead. Authoritarian Spain had been told it had much to be happy about. Special editions of Government-controlled newspapers had shown the contrast between Spain of a year ago and Spain of today. Brother-in-law Serrano, who is also Minister of Government (interior), had inaugurated a public-works program calling...
...Authoritarian though Brazil is, its Estado Novo has no political link with Italy's Stato Corporativo, Germany's Third Reich. When war started, with German agents swarming over the country, trying to buy up Brazilian papers to counteract Brazil's Allied sympathies, President Vargas clamped on the press a censorship as tight and thorough as Edouard Daladier's control of the French press...
...democratic institutions at stake? McKay points out that "both French and British democracy were revealing signs of weakening before the war began." And then, he asks, "will post-war exhaustion bring, even in victory, some new economic controls and some kind of authoritarian political regime...