Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bellevue-Stratford Hotel ADA unanimously agreed that it was rebellious toward the Republicans, wrathful to the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace, and coolly critical of Truman's record. Both members and leaders called themselves "the third force" in civilization, rejecting the status quo of the Right and the worldwide totalitarian program of the Communist Left. Every-where it is the third force which finds itself today between the devil and the deep blue...
...advocating any doctrine "inconsistent with" the state and federal constitutions. This phrase would have endangered even those who urged legal amendment of the present constitutions. The Bill as now reworded directs the Committee to investigate-"when there is credible evidence"-persons who "are promoting, furthering or participating in any totalitarian movement which has as an objective . . . the changing by force or other unlawful means our duly constituted forms of national or state governments." As in the case of the Barnes Bill, this seems to be a superfluous piece of legislation since the Massachusetts Anti-Anarchy Act of 1919 already makes...
...House un-American Activities Committee has employed the weapons of public suspicion and smearing, so this committee could intimidate citizens from exercising their constitutional right of petition and thus stifle opposition to legislative policies which it favored. Such a committee could go beyond its avowed purpose of investigating totalitarian movements and further threaten those civil liberties which are already in peril...
Mather, in his main speech and a single rebuttal, scored the bill as loosely worded and essentially totalitarian. He claimed that Communistic ideologies "cannot be defeated by threats of prison terms and heavy fines...
...Russia from 1912 to 1918, returned there in 1942 to spend the next three years as deputy press attache at the British Embassy. Soviet Literature Today is irritatingly naive and uncritical. But it is important for what it reveals about the grisly role of the writer in a totalitarian state...