Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outlook Gloomy." Thus a Viceroy, at the absolute discretion and whim of His Majesty's Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect...
Pointing out that politics have always governed the acquisition and tenure of office, Mr. Douglas said that under a totalitarian State, even if the form of democracy were retained, it would be impossible to prevent politics from creeping into the planning--this would either eventuate, or a bureaucracy must be created, so powerful as to entail the abandonment of "all of our cherished lib- selections, a brief violin recital by Malcolm H. Holmes, a quartet singing popular undergraduate music, an exhibition of monocycle riding, and winding up by more selections by the Glee Club with the whole crowd finally joining...
...remaining lectures to be given in Harvard Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays through January 22, Dr. Kraus will concentrate on certain representative features, such as the theory and practice of leadership, new racial politics, new nationalism and the totalitarian state, economic aims, and foreign policy trends, which form basic elements of the German structure...
...Abolish the procedure which sent Adolf Hitler not to jail but to "detention in a fortress" after the failure of his seditious beer hall Putsch in 1923. According to the Ministry of Justice "Detention in a fortress can scarcely be continued, since in the totalitarian State neither the seditionist nor the traitor can very well receive honorable detention...
Raking the brownshirts' vaunted "Totalitarian State" from stem to stern, von Papen flayed its muzzling of the Press, its meddling with religion, its encouragement of fanaticism and the drift toward radicalism of those Nazis who keep shouting for a Second Revolution. "Did we experience an anti-Marxist revolution," he barked, "only to carry out the program of Marxism...