Word: statism
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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This American radical will be generally against Statism; he will favor greater decentralization of governmental authority, though he will "be ready to invoke even the Federal Government in the interests of maintaining real freedom among the masses of the population." But he will want to strengthen local government in order to prevent his old enemy, the Federal power, from increasing every decade. To this end he would even work for a reduction in the number of States so that "new areas, fewer in number and more nearly equal in population" might constitute stronger units of local government...
...spoken Mr. Johnston added to his stature. In an address in Manhattan entitled "The Road to Realism," Johnston summed up the fears and hopes of many a U.S. executive. Johnston's fear is that present emphasis on Federal power will lead the U.S. to totalitarianism. Said he: "Super-statism is not a bogey of the businessmen's imagination. It is the monster which has catapulted the world into war. . . . Unless we recognize it as a real danger, we shall lose by default...