Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hayes, a history professor at Columbia, has often said that he is against all forms of totalitarianism. Nevertheless, in his Wartime Mission in Spain (published in English last year), Hayes could make a choice of evils. He took the view that Russia, being both totalitarian and pagan, was worse than totalitarian but pious Spain, and that Franco's regime was not as bad as friends of Russia made out. Much of his comment was distinctly unflattering to Franco, however, and he insisted that his text be strictly followed in the translation. It was, except for the circumlocution...
...deity of Christ and the sinfulness of man) had lambasted Protestantism's growing neo-orthodox movement with everything in the book. The Unitarian polemicists concentrated their attack on neo-orthodoxy's belief in the Doctrine of Original Sin, indulging themselves in such five-fingered epithets as "totalitarian religion," " 'Mother fixation' upon an idealized past...
...issue. The horror pictures were part of the Communist argument that Russia alone was near enough to offer protection, that the West was weak and treacherous (Munich was not forgotten). Many Czech voters agreed; but though they voted Red they would not be willing to go along with a totalitarian state on the Soviet model. The Communist electoral victory was still impressive. In the Assembly they can wield a slim majority (152 seats over 148) through their close alliance with Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger's Social Democrats...
...serious bid to win a majority through democratic processes. The consummate skill which the French Communists show in using democratic methods does not, of course, mean that the party is moving in the direction of democracy. The party organizers have merely learned another language in which to pursue totalitarian aims...
Mayer had written in the Socialist organ, Le Populaire: "The nation no longer wants to read slogans which . . . recall the methods of totalitarian propaganda, f France] has nothing to gain from being exclusively aligned on Russian foreign policy. . . . We must not be cut off from the Anglo-Saxon world, nor from Russia either for that matter. . . . [But] the nation does not want Maurice Thorez to be premier...