Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world in barter deals by which Germany, since she could not pay, got what she wanted by swapping. If trading were even remotely free on German stock exchanges there would have been panic and chaos last week as it was realized that Schacht was out-but iron, totalitarian Nazi control kept all quiet...
...parliamentarians in 1888 takes itself quite seriously, claims to have germinated the idea of The Permanent Court of International Justice, the League of Nations. Press Agent Robinet de Clery ballyhoos the Union as a more universal institution than the League, because Japan and the U. S., League nonmembers, and totalitarian Italy which finds the League distasteful, regularly send delegates. Germany and Soviet Russia, however, did not attend...
Rightist Spain is the territory governed from Salamanca, is, due to the inevitable inability of dictatorships to popularize themselves outside their boundaries, less known than any other equally important government in the world. Now in the 14th month of its history, it is running fairly smoothly as a totalitarian state. The leader of all totalitarian states must have a potent sounding title. Hitler's is the Führer. Mussolini's is II Duce. Franco's is El Caudillo (the chief). He is not only chief of the army, but chief of all Rightist Spain...
...Danish Parliament, a dumpy old lady last week rapped a distinguished gathering to order. Before her sat 203 representatives from 21 nations, including France's bouncing Edouard Herriot, Czechoslovakia's venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori had called together a ten-day international Congress on Education & Peace...
...attained. Here is one world, and woe to the man who does not conform to it in thought as well as in action. I hardly need give illustrations. We are all too familiar with them, --the news from Russia and Germany almost daily illustrates the intellectual tyranny of a totalitarian state. There can be little room, indeed, for a nonconformist in a country where the Minister of Education declares: "The old idea of Science based on the belief in the supremacy of the abstract intellect is finished. The new Science is sharply differentiated from the conception that its honor lies...