Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part the future of the people of that continent. It will also determine in large part whether the free nations of the world can look forward with hope to a peaceful and prosperous future as independent states, or whether they must live in poverty and in fear of selfish totalitarian aggression...
...scarcely less critical step. "If Europe fails to recover, the peoples of these countries might be driven to the philosophy of despair-the philosophy which contends that their basic wants can be met only by the surrender of their basic rights to totalitarian control. Such a turn of events would constitute a shattering blow to peace and stability in the world. It might well compel us to modify our own economic system and to forgo, for the sake of our own security, the enjoyment of many of our freedoms and privileges...
...President Truman had directed, Attorney General Tom Clark last week issued his list of "totalitarian, fascist, Communist or subversive" organizations. It is to be used as a guide for the President's Loyalty Review Board in judging the loyalty of federal employees...
...from Earl Browder's pro-Soviet War or Peace with Russia? to ex-Communist James Burnham's The Struggle for the World, which regards compromise with Russia as dangerous folly. Hal Lehrman went to the Balkans as a pro-Soviet correspondent, had his eyes opened by the totalitarian steamroller in action, described it convincingly in Russia's Europe...
Modern man was challenged to choose between the traditions of a 2,000-year-old Christian civilization and the new totalitarian systems which, in the name of social progress, contended for the allegiance of man's secular mind. The promise of the new ideas was as old as that serpentine whisper heard in the dawn of the Creation: "You shall become as gods"-for the first traitor was the first...