Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...censorship and secret police, Stalin does not have to worry about "public opinion" in the Western political sense. But morale matters, because it has an effect on how hard the people work, how ready they are to fight, how willingly they submit to the rule of Russia's dictatorship...
...combat this concept our best weapon should be to give all possible aid and reassurance to all people under the yoke of Communist dictatorship, especially the Russian people themselves, Kerensky maintained...
Guerard's war is fought in a small nameless country on the Continent, between the sullen, deteriorating armies of Western Allies and a "dictatorship." He tells most of his story through the narrative of an intelligence sergeant, sent up from a rear area for propaganda work in the small country, the sergeant's home. The sergeant strains to find some sense in the war's contradictory orders, its faked broadcasts, its leaflets and rumors. Eventually he crosses the enemy lines to the city of his birth and tries to start life ever again as a workman. A rumored germ-warfare...
...effect of the Mundt bill is to lump together actual subversives (of whom few have turned up), idealistic radicals, and people who join sundry "leftist" groups for sundry reasons. The latter two are useful parts of society; the quickest way to bring on a "totalitarian dictatorship" is to suppress criticism from either the right or left...
Before a gathering of 50 people in Harvard 1, Lamont predicted that Americans are going to be surprised by the news of the peaceful purposes for which Russia will use the atom bomb. He explained that political dictatorship in the Soviet Union is only a transitional step towards a socialist democracy...