Word: authoritarianism
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Poor lad, he got his news-story back with a D--, inscribed, "This is the worst pretense at news-writing I have ever seen. No newspaper editor would even look at it." At a conference later this authoritarian view was amplified, the more so because the sophomore kept an heroic silence...
...from the League. Il Duce's acts (as distinguished from his words) are, however, nearly always extremely cautious. He is working slowly (and he hopes surely) to root democracy out of the League, as he has rooted it out of Italy. Last Spring he tried to create an "authoritarian" bloc of Great Powers to put the League in its place by drawing Britain, France and Germany into Italy's (his) Four Power Pact (TIME, June 9, et ante). The Pact's authoritarian aim was blighted when France, urged by her Little Entente allies, injected before the Pact...
...asked Chancellor Dollfuss whether he was not in effect setting up a dictatorship, Millimetternich cannily replied, "I authorize you to declare that it is quite misleading to call it a dictatorship. It is merely a step toward the goal I have already announced: a Christian German Corporative State under authoritarian leadership." Since Benito Mussolini founded and heads the world's No. 1 corporative state, Engelbert Dollfuss' announcement sounded sufficiently Fascist to suit Prince von Starhemberg. "Comrades," he manifested to the Heimwehr, "the Chancellor has heard your call. . . . The Heimwehr thank him and promise him their united support...
...Parliament with the old leaders, is gone, never to return. The period of Socialist misguidance is over. We will build up a Catholic German State which will be thoroughly Austrian upon a corporative basis. It will be an authoritarian State based on corporations formed on occupational lines, but we decline coordination and terrorism. At the beginning of autumn we stand on the eve of renewal of our country...
...Frank Harris, 74, born in Ireland of Welsh parents, is one of few living literary men to whom the term "free lance" can be fittingly applied. Onetime cowboy (in Texas), onetime schoolteacher, onetime editor (of the London Vanity Fair, Saturday Review, Candid Friend), he is an all-time anti-authoritarian and rebel. Says Critic Joseph Wood Krutch of him: "Love, forgiveness and pity are his themes, Jesus and the 'gentle Shakespeare' his idols, but truculence is his manner." Says Harris of himself: "I am a lover of books and men, who takes pleasure in the past by traveling...