Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement he implied that the U.S. was largely deferring to the attitude of Western Europe. "The fact of the matter was," he declared, "that a government was established in Spain which was patterned on the regimes in Italy and in Germany and was, and is, a Fascist government and dictatorship . . ." Point by point, he ticked off the Western democracies' indictment of the Franco regime. It denied the writ of habeas corpus, the right of trial by jury, the right of religious liberty, the right of free association...
Majority control of minority groups always poses a difficult problem for a democracy. There is probably no "perfect" solution. But the only way to cope with the problem without imposing either dictatorship of the majority or dictatorship of the minority is constitutionalism. When applied to the Harvard scene, this means that there should be simple, written rules as to how any group may get a charter. These rules should not involve value judgments as to what "furthers the purposes of a Harvard education...
...debate on the subject was sharp. James H. Heller '49 repeated his statements of the previous meeting on the subject by stating that he was against any extension of the "dictatorship of snobbery," and drew from Edward M. Parker '49, Sergeant-at-Arms of the new club, a strong denial that the club was based on snobbery...
Professor Fainsod, who unfortunately has given up most of his undergraduate connections to work at the Russian research center, still gives one half course in Dictatorship which is both thorough and valuable...
...political case is harder to argue. It is true that U.S. aid will unquestionably keep Spain safely anti-Communist. But the threat of Communism in Spain is pretty weak. For Spain remains, despite the blurbs of Franco, Farley, and "Life" magazine, a complete military dictatorship. Whether this dictatorship is more or less strict than it was ten years ago is not the issue. Franco's army of 400,000 men keeps "order," and the General is supported by a single recognized political party. Serious opposition is promptly and inevitably imprisoned or liquidated. All of which adds up to Fascism...