Word: facto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alone was guiding Germany over a tight-rope of political uncertainty when any slip would mean a fall disastrous to his regime. His overwhelming victory was a personal rather than a national triumph, and the psychological tactics he used are recorded in "My New Order" for the post facto wonder of those interested in his peculiar strength...
Thus we observe the reduction ad absurdum of the premise that the view of any individual or any majority is ipso facto absolute. The best that can be said for a majority opinion is that it is a majority opinion under which the policy of the nation should be provisionally ordered. For always the dictatorial tendencies of a majority should be subject to the check of a wakeful minority aspiring to power...
...between life and death. The Marshal and the Government have chosen life." When it was over it seemed apparent that Admiral Darlan had put more weight on the word "sovereignty" than it could possibly bear. If it was his intention to conceal France's rapid motion toward de facto Axis partnership and full-fledged fascism, the mounting evidence made it impossible. For it remained clear last week that Germany, far from being "alone," was enjoying a good part of France's agricultural and industrial output and the military use of French-controlled territory in Syria and Morocco. Moreover...
...imposing taxes to secure social and political ends rather than income; 8) weakening capital relative to themselves by curtailing pri vate property rights in measure after measure ; 9 ) the taking over by the executive bureaus of the attributes and func tions of sovereignty: "the bureaus become the de facto 'law makers.' " Burnham believes that the gradual reduction of parliaments (the congress of Soviets, the Reichstag) to a mere sounding board is an essential feature of the managerial revolution. "With occasional petty rebellions," Congress, he notes, has sunk "lower and lower as sovereignty shifted from the parliament toward...
...Allied pastorals of the late great Cardinal Mercier which kept up the morale of occupied Belgium during World War I. Angry Nazis promptly closed every Belgian church for three days but the pastoral circulated regardless. In it the six prelates recognized the Nazis only "as a de facto power," proclaimed that "the Belgian fatherland continues to exist," urged "national solidarity" and "moral unity," closed with an appeal to remember Armistice Day and to pray for all Belgians fallen in "the preceding and in this...