Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest man of our century, but he committed certain disastrous errors. I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his mistakes." On the record so far, Perón has done just that. His regime has the authoritarian marks-extreme nationalism, the leader principle, an all-powerful state, a militant single party, intolerance of opposition and retention of the form of democracy without any of ts substance. But the Peróns have not yet followed Mussolini all the way along the lines of violence and overconfidence. They still...
...policy of telling the news as we see it gets us into trouble with authoritarian governments anywhere - Latin America not excepted. But the censor's scissors and the dictator's edicts only heighten the educated reader's determination to get the news. Over the past decade, even the "strong men" have tried to govern by more & more democratic methods and have become less & less prone to interfere with what people read. Though single issues are sometimes confiscated, only Perón's Argentina still bans TIME. In all countries, of course, TIME-readers make full...
...Szymczak, thinks that indirect controls, if wisely and quickly used, can do the job. Szymczak, long a spokesman for moderation in Government attempts to control the economy, said: "The more we can accomplish by means of monetary, credit and fiscal policies . . . the less need there will be for the authoritarian harness of rationing and other direct controls...
...Were the authoritarian officer corps to regain ascendency in Germany, Friedrich continued, this group would be put in a unique position of being able to play the East and West off against one another...
...service was notably honest and efficient, but it looked upon itself as the masters of the people, not as their servants. Wrote one angry German critic in 1909: "The sergeant-types, who properly belong on the drill field, have gradually penetrated to the highest ranks of public administration." The authoritarian civil service survived the Weimar Republic, was made to order for Hitler...