Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead, he insists that through economic appeasement, through an extension of trade which will raise the general standard of living, the steps toward war can still be retracted. When he stated that the totalitarian states are in reality exhausting themselves while creating an illusion of strength and security, he was never on surer ground. When he described the drift to autarchy, armament, and war as a "road strewn with the wreckage of civilized man's most precious possessions", he expressed succinctly what has been said many times before, but which well deserves repetition. And when he stated that "the world...
...defined Communism as "a society in which the state regiments everything," and said that to be long-lasting a Communist-Totalitarian state must exploit its masses...
Ankara statesmen, however, did not appear to have slipped into the noose of Nazidom. Cynical neutrals figured that Turkey and the Balkan States are now delightedly inviting bids from the democracies and the totalitarian states, with not. even the azure skies of the Near East as the limit in a game of dishing out money which the richer democracies should be able...
...typically complicated plot is a subtle lampoon at Sir Oswald Mosely, and indirectly at Fascism as a whole. Mr. Wodehouse, is too good an author, and possibly too clever a propagandist, ever to let his satire become oppressive, but he has given Bertie repeated opportunities to "tick off" Spode, totalitarian leader, in the strongest terms the lackadaisical hero has ever used...
...discussions of the American nations below the equator have stressed the point that they are blanketed with Italian and German short-wave propaganda, that the U. S. should fight propaganda with propaganda. Observer Kostelanetz verified the activity of totalitarian shortwavers, but pricked the balloon of their importance by reporting that short-wave listening in South America, even more than in the U. S., is an exacting hobby, available to relatively few people, of interest to even fewer. Said he: "In all of Brazil [pop. 47,795,000] there are only 420,000 radio sets, only 15% of them equipped...