Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Certainly men such as Clement Attlee are not avid for arbitrary power. But whatever they do or do not seek, it is a fact that Socialism destroys some of the bases of personal independence. Britain's strict labor control laws have been rarely invoked in the last five years. So far, only 657 applications for permission to change jobs have been actually refused, but the laws remain on the books and there is no doubt that thousands of workers are hesitant to change their jobs because of them. Some Laborites, e.g., Nye Bevan, regularly use the vocabulary of class...
...there is any actual experience of the working of Socialist governments in parliamentary democracies, the evidence seems to point the other way. Instead of the Socialist machine accelerating in a grim geometric progression towards an infinity of state control, the British and Scandinavian models seem to have some inner friction or contradiction which soon brings them to a halt...
...months Peron has authorized, if he has not actively directed, the most widespread and relentless attack on press freedom that modern Argentina has ever seen. In that time his favorite congressional hatchet man, José Emilio Visca, onetime butcher, has closed 58 newspapers and magazines outright. By taking control of the country's chief newsprint stocks he has gained the power of life or death over virtually all the rest of the press...
...surprising new set of U.S. terms. The request for a blank check for military aid was dropped. The demand for cash in advance was changed; Canada could use letters of credit. The third stipulation-that Canada export no U.S.-made arms without permission-was watered down, giving Washington control only of equipment containing more than half U.S. parts...
With or without the professional look, Nurses Wilson and Bond had won a battle. Of all the cases reported thus far, there have been only five deaths; the health department announced last week that the diphtheria epidemic was under control...