Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power] adrift in this still agitated and un-united world. ... I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and some Communist or neo-Fascist state monopolized . . . these dread agents. The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. . . . Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization," the secret could be shared...
...Power. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde has never suffered from pallid faith in his own star. "God is with me," he said in public last September, "and those God helps along never fail to win." His path to totalitarian power has been religious and ruthless, stubborn and supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen...
...western Allies watched worriedly. Though they could not use the Machiavellian salesmanship of their totalitarian allies, the western powers sought.ways to strengthen their own occupation program to counter Russia's determined steps. Many a German looked on smugly: nine months after their victory, the victors were contending for the allegiance of the vanquished...
Would its tough Argentine policy be a success? The U.S. would get a quick answer at this Sunday's election. If democratic candidate José P. Tamborini won, so had the U.S. If totalitarian Perón were elected President, it would take more than words to blast him out of Argentina's Casa Rosada...
Communist Russia made no secret of its implacable hostility to religion, scarcely bothered to conceal its low regard for human life. Neither did Nazi Germany nor Fascist Italy, which made a mockery of their concordats with Rome. World War II by no means ended the totalitarian threat to Europe. The Soviet glacier edged deep into the old continent, froze such Catholic nations as Poland and Hungary in its grip. In the rest of Europe large masses still looked to Communism for salvation-or at least for retribution. In the long perspective of the Church, it was not hard to envision...