Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DEMOCRACY WORKS" is written for this decisive decade of the Twentieth Century when immediate utility is the prime concern of governments and the simple mechanism of the totalitarian state has lured many nations from the "muddling progress" of democracy. Arthur Garfield Hays reaffirms his faith in our system. It works not because it fits a "philosophical blueprint," but because through selection and adoption it is responsive not to any one but to all pressure groups. Though not of lasting importance and lacking in polish, his book is full of hope and thoroughly convincing at a time when people need conviction...
...Bolivia--President German Busch today abolished constitutional guarantees, dissolved the Congress and set up a totalitarian dictatorship in a drastic move to cope with internal economic and political conditions that threatened Bolivia with bankruptcy and revolution...
Ever since his "quarantine the aggressor nations" speech at Chicago in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt has openly led the party which believes not only that the totalitarian dictators deny the democratic U. S. way of life but that they threaten it, that something must be done to curb them. Doing something about things that look wrong to him is a prime characteristic of Franklin Roosevelt and, fortified by the Warm Springs spirit, the tougher the going gets the better he likes...
According to the Student Opinion Surveys and your editorial of April 14th, American students hope to save democracy by stopping Hitler. . We were supposed to have saved it in 1918. The new crop of totalitarian states stretching from Russia to Germany was the saving. Of course, if we are good myth-makers and word-twisters, we can believe in the democracy existing in Russia, Poland and Rumania today...
...Brazilian Consul stresses the important trade, cultural, and physical relationship between the two New World countries. "Need for arousing the bends of New World Brotherhood was never more imperative than in this era of totalitarian governments...