Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make it unlawful to work or conspire toward the establishment in the U.S. of a foreign-controlled, totalitarian government, i.e., the Soviet. (Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and ten years in jail; loss of citizenship...
...spite of some minor implausibilities, The Iron Curtain is a scrupulous and restrained movie, as well as a persuasive and exciting one. Under William Wellman's taut direction, it catches something of the soul-freezing discipline and mutual mistrust which must be the normal climate for totalitarian operations; something, too, of the way ardent amateurs in "front" groups are exploited. And near the end, when Gouzenko is trying hopelessly to find a Canadian who will listen to his story while the pursuers close in, the suspense is really awful...
This world unification may begin with violence (in the way, say, that Bismarck forcibly united the German states) or it may emerge from a compromise between the free enterprise of Western Christendom (the U.S.) and the totalitarian economy of the Byzantine orthodoxy (the U.S.S.R.). Only one thing can now prevent one world, says Toynbee: the destruction of all our major civilizations by the atom bomb...
...secret services in a democracy work under disadvantages which those in totalitarian states are spared. A free press which loves sensations and spy stories, a prying Congress which controls the purse strings, and a foreign policy which is inclined to vary sharply with public opinion and administration polities, all detract from the Machiavellian efficiency which is considered the ultimate goal of espionage. On the other hand, a too independent and efficient intelligence service which cannot be controlled by its own government, will always develop a tendency to make its own policy. Such a bureau, the prime example of which...
...continued conduct of American foreign affairs, the Constitution may be nullified by the President, officials, and officers who have taken the oath, and are under moral obligation to uphold it. For limited government under supreme law they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which, it has been alleged, World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government...