Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national pride and dollars. It is a question of vital significance to all small countries in the world. They have been given the impression that the United States fought for the same principles that they themselves believe in; but if the United States now adopts the methods of the totalitarian states, they may as well throw in the sponge...
...beyond Eisler there are a host of other men-fellow travelers, confused liberals, "totalitarian liberals" (see INTERNATIONAL), left-wing New Dealers-who owe muddled allegiance to the idea that government should be omnipotently responsible for the lives of its citizens even to the point of benevolent despotism. They fail to understand that despotism, which has a way of beginning with benevolence, usually ends by being merely despotic. Few of them even understood the incompatibility of their views with democracy, or that it is just such views which makes them so sympathetic to Soviet Russia. But the mass of Americans...
...congressional investigators achieved nothing else, they were dramatizing one fact: a man can be a Communist, or a "totalitarian liberal" and call himself a good American-but he cannot expect his fellow Americans to agree. All Americans could heartily echo David Lilienthal's "great belief in civil liberties." But if they believed in democracy and Soviet Russia too, as Henry Wallace did, then it was time they had their heads examined-or their hearts...
...experience in thinking out their personal or national philosophy. Meanwhile, our fellow citizens in the world community are very articulate, explicit, and definite in their plan of action. We don't like the way they have achieved that definiteness by indoctrination from the top of a totalitarian government, but we owe it to our fellow citizens and to our convictions to use our free method of education to accomplish a result which can match the well-though-dictatorially-formulated opposition. If we really have the truth, we ought to be able to express...
Whoever won - Guachalla seemed to have the edge - Bolivia's new Government faced a stack of problems left by the totalitarian Villarroel regime. Living costs for the nation's 3,500,000 Indians, cholos (half breeds) and whites had zoomed 200% since 1939. Builders had never finished the highway (started with the help of U.S. funds) that would have given underfed population centers on the wind swept, 12,000-ft, altiplano food from the fertile lowlands. The $25,000,000 capital of Bolivia's RFC-like Development Corp. had been heavily tapped without bringing the country nearer...