Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution of the SDA declares against "Communists and all other totalitarian groups," and the debate on the amendment revolved around the question of whether every HLU member could support this stand. The proposed amendment would have required every man in HLU to get an SDA membership card and thereby personally back their principle of non-affiliation with Communists...
...Russia from a curious and shameless lot of renegades. Krebs ("Valtin"), Kravehenko, and Budenz have followed each other, in renouncing the cause loudly in the tencent press. But it seems strange that a mere turnabout should qualify these men as respected experts; if, before, they were conspiratorial and totalitarian minded enemies of America and democracy, why are they now suddenly eligible for cocktail parties and the better publishing houses...
...Totalitarian arguments," huffed Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. A work of amateurs and professors, said Wilbur Forrest, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (which the report had criticized as a do-nothing group). But Forrest's own paper, the New York Herald Tribune (he is its assistant editor) argued that the commission's findings could not be dismissed as "mere professional whimsy." Said the Trib: the press does have a responsibility to its public, a responsibility that outweighs a publisher's caprices, and "this responsibility is often neglected or flouted...
...standards to be applied for disloyalty tests include such obvious items as sabotage, espionage, treason, or advocacy of revolution. The gimmick is in the specification designed to catch the Communists: "Membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association with any foreign or domestic organization . . . designated by the Attorney General as totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive...
Osensibly gunning for members of communist, fascist, and totalitarian groups only, the order encompasses a disproportionately wide field and gives alarming powers of accusation to the Attorney General. By allowing federal inquisitors to arraign any man remotely sympathetic to a foreign ideology, the President has opened the way for subversion of democratic rights to the dictates of public opinion and the fears of hyper-sensitive officials. Under the new plan, the Attorney-General has the power to decide which groups constitute a menace to the security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous...