Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...booklets were presented to the South American diplomats by the State Department's urbane Dean Acheson and burly Spruille Braden, onetime ambassador in Buenos Aires and outspoken enemy of Juan Domingo Peron's military regime. Their plain-spoken Blue Book charged that two successive totalitarian Governments of Neighbor Argentina...
...started off mildly enough, charging on the basis of newspaper clippings that Britain was "endangering genuine national aspirations." Quipped Bevin: a newspaper has three functions: to amuse, to entertain, to mislead. The joke was ill-timed, and Vishinsky grimly pounced on it. The Briton had to listen while the totalitarian defended Britain's free press: "The fact that there is a free press in Britain entitles us to place some credence...
...about five months. The failure of Russia (which is not a big world trader) to ratify within the time limit was regretted in Washington and London as an unfortunate sign of noncooperation, but no one thought that it would make much difference. The Fund has little usefulness for a totalitarian economy; its object is to make private trade possible...
...criminals and collecting reparations; limiting industry and science to the bounds of Japan's restricted peacetime needs; removing militaristic and nationalist influences and restoring civil liberties. It was a tall order. No man or nation had ever before attempted, let alone succeeded in, shifting a whole country from totalitarian feudalism to representative democracy, primarily through use of the country's own nationals...
...strapping, 59-year-old José Tamborini is no intellectual recluse. He is exceedingly popular as a politician, and his man-to-man geniality reminds some of Wendell Willkie. No totalitarian, Tamborini has fought its virus in press and parliament for years...