Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first visit to Europe in 19 years, Herbert Hoover, still his party's dean, sounded off. Main points: 100 dignitaries with whom he had conversed had given him the impression that immediate general war is unlikely but the U. S. should nonetheless keep out of entangling alliances, and totalitarianism will get you if you don't watch out.* In Bangor, Me., New Hampshire's Senator Bridges called on the country to put an end to "Roosevelt Constitutional tyranny." In a Washington broadcast, Idaho's Borah warned the U. S. not to be moved...
...There is in France none of that penury and want and none of that forced labor which is to be found under the surface of the totalitarian countries. There are very few people in France who do not eat and drink well. There are still very few who do not manage to live within their incomes and save something...
...homesick speeches, parade with wooden guns. Sleek Mr. Kuhn, who looks and talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed to lead his organization through its latest crisis. He was in Brussels for an "antiCommunist" meeting with two other equally unsuccessful but considerably more authentic advocates of totalitarian government-Belgium's Léon Degrelle, France's François Casimir de La Rocque...
Describing Russia after the Bolshevik counter-revolution of 1917 as the first totalitarian state in Europe, Kerensky pointed to the difference between the situation when he was leader of the Leftist opposition to the Tsar, and the present time when all opposition within the party ranks has been stopped...
...doing practically nothing for a fortnight but probing for such a commitment. He was specifically interested in a possible agreement between the U. S. and Britain already bound by the 1936 Naval Treaty and two of the "democracies" which Franklin Roosevelt has intimated may eventually have to take the totalitarian powers over their knees. In response to direct questioning, Admiral Leahy had denied point-blank the existence of such an agreement. So had Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee. So had Secretary of State Hull. At the week's beginning, Senator Johnson had declared himself entirely satisfied...