Word: authoritarianism
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...years in "a grandstand seat at the most momentous show in history," his tortured conclusion is that "the price the world must pay-and is already paying- for the material advantages of the modern machine is increasingly greater curtailment and restriction of the personal liberty of people. . . . Under authoritarian governments in which one man virtually sways the destinies of his country, nations are more than ever moved by the same emotions, instincts and interests as the single individual. It is conceivable that a dictator awakening one morning with a bellyache might throw his country into a war which might never...
Between the French Jew and the German "Aryan" antithesis was complete: M. Blum last week was for democracy and a generally concluded European peace to maintain the status quo under a strengthened League of Nations; Herr Hitler was for authoritarian States willing to make no more than a regional peace in Western Europe, scorned the League of Nations, and was keen for altering the status quo to give Germany at least some colonies and perhaps some rich chunks of Russian territory...
...principles evolved by the French Revolution of 1789 have spread over the entire world," polished and rational Orator Blum cried. "Those who condemn them often unknowingly profit from them. Without the civil liberty that the French Revolution proclaimed, the authoritarian States of Europe would not today have at their heads men risen from the depths of the people and drawing from that origin their titles and their pride...
...adoption of such an amendment would bring about an unwarranted revolutionary change in the economic and political order of the country. Warning that such a step would arm Congress with dangerous prerogatives, they declared that the inevitable result would involve extinction of personal rights and the triumph of authoritarian government...
...made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel Gueorguieff's friends began to say that Bulgaria would be better off without Tsar Boris. Last week in Sofia the Tsar's police uncovered a vast plot to overthrow the Government and perhaps to assassinate the little Tsar, his Italian Queen or both...