Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along with Russia." In Byrnes's words it is the position of "patience as well as firmness." The potential reward is Russian respect for U.S. democracy, freedom of choice for the small nations and in some distant future, perhaps, the collapse of Russia's unnatural totalitarian scheme. This position implies a political conflict which can conceivably be waged and won without recourse to war. The policy risks war-as any international policy does-but the risk is not the same thing as inevitability...
...Stuttgart speech (TIME, Sept. 16), he had almost begun to persuade the world that such a thing as a U.S. foreign policy exists, and that it is beginning to be both clear and firm: 1) play a strong hand in Europe, 2) check the spread of Russia's totalitarian ideology in Europe and Asia. And now a fellow Cabinet officer, apparently backed by the President, had blown the gaff: there was no U.S. foreign policy after all-just conflicting opinions...
Actually, Britons, temperamentally incapable of becoming totalitarian robots, were not taking and would not take much downtreading from socialists or anybody else. Some might mutter that Morrison wanted to be a policeman "like his father." But Morrison knows his Britain; he put up a sign in London classrooms expressing a most anti-authoritarian sentiment: "The teacher may be wrong. Think for yourself...
...Totalitarian dismay in the face of a free press is not confined to Communist countries. Last week the head of ^ the rightist Greek Government, fat, cigar-smoking Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, was in London and gave a press conference. A correspondent confronted him with the UNRRA statement that supplies to Greece would be stopped because of political discrimination in handing them out, whereat Tsaldaris lost his temper and shouted: "Iff a lie, it's a slander! What right have you got to ask about the internal affairs of Greece?" The reporters began chanting "Freedom of the press!" and the Premier...
Argentina sported the trappings of democracy. But if Juan Domingo Peron's first six weeks as President were any indication, they were only trappings: life was not getting less totalitarian along the Rio de la Plata...