Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope of every national person that a showdown between these opposing forces can be avoided that appeasement, granted by the democracies to the totalitarian states with the demand of a quid pro quo, can reestablish international order. The weapons for this accomplishment are economic. "There are many methods short of war, but stronger and more effective than words, of bringing home to aggressor governments the aggregate sentiments of our own people," the President significantly said Wednesday...
...next blow came from a source almost as impressive as State Department or White House. Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee handed out, without preface or elaboration, a concise statement of his view of U. S. foreign relations with totalitarian States. Its text in toto...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull, it was intended to be an unmistakable warning aimed squarely at the totalitarian States of Europe. Chief critic of the original version was Argentina. Always a strong advocate of solidarity, Argentina, dependent upon German and Italian purchases for a sizable amount of her trade, objected to such an outspoken attack on her totalitarian customers. Mr. Hull, unwilling to compromise President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by insisting that the U. S. have its way, allowed Argentina to substitute a pact which specified no particular kind of "foreign intervention." Then Brazil, traditional South American rival...
Buried under the squabble over the Declaration were several Conference decisions which may have a more immediate effect on totalitarian methods than the Declaration itself. The Conference, in 13 working days before it formally adjourned this week, approved no projects, rejected dozens, tabled others until the next conference in 1943. Among those approved were...
...Conference's opening. Most of the delegates had come with resolutions to propose, and most of the others were willing to accept them-with reservations. They were willing to endorse hemispheric defensive military cooperation from the U. S.-but no military alliances. They were willing to damn totalitarianism in general-but no specific totalitarian state in particular. ("The position of America is one of collaboration, not rebuke," said General Benavides.) They were willing to accept the principle of Argentina's strictures against disruptive foreign political movements-but those who still clung to the principle of civil liberties could...