Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenge came from the Reverend Edward Lodge Curran, President of the International Catholic Truth Society, who said in his letter to Hicks, "I am opposed to any form of dictatorship in the United States, whether it be a dictatorship from the right or a dictatorship from the left...
...March 1933. After the November elections had showed Mr. Roosevelt's political stock at a six-year low, last week's speech seized and dramatized the issue on which Mr. Roosevelt's personal popularity in the land was already sharply reviving: the U. S. v. Dictatorship...
...Peroration of Mr. Roosevelt's sixth Annual Address brought all hands up unanimously once more. "Dictatorship . . . involves costs which the American people will never pay . . . spiritual values. . . . The blessed right of being able to say what we please . . . freedom of religion . . . seeing our capital confiscated . . . being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor . . . of having our children brought up . . . as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine...
From a junior-high-school American history: ". . . The Japanese army . . . by 1937 was in full control and the Japanese people were ruled by what was really a military dictatorship. . . . At Shanghai the Chinese held back the invader for months in a magnificent stand. Japanese air fleets dropped bombs on Chinese cities and killed thousands of unarmed people. The League of Nations and the United States protested against such terrorism...
From a high-school civics book: "Dictatorship . . . makes much of national unity. . . . Convicts doing the lockstep in a prison yard are a perfect example of unity, but we do not envy them. . . . Hitler and Mussolini . . . talk much of the virtues which fascism fosters. . . . But fascism has no monopoly of courage and sacrifice...