Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Saturday a frighteningly large group of Austrians decided they would like to have some Nazis running their country. Three hundred thousand of them voted for the League of Independents, a frankly totalitarian organization...
...past two years the regime has increasingly used such totalitarian practices as police torture and terrorization of the independent press. Dissident officeholders have been purged. Such opposition leaders as Radicals Ernesto Sammartino and Agustin Rodriguez Araya have been forced into exile (TIME...
...leadership accept, and, to capacitate the emigrated youth who are meant to be an important democratic force in the future of Spain, for in our country, only a very restricted number of students have access to the present Universities, and the instruction they receive is limited, cautious, had totalitarian...
...moving speech he warned the delegates against totalitarian power grabs. He recalled the March 1933 meeting of the Reichstag, which voted the infamous enabling act handing Hitler his dictatorial powers. At this, an interrupting cry came from the extreme left, behind the kettledrums. It was Max Reimann, Communist Parteiführer of Western Germany and one of the 15 representatives of his party in the Bundestag: "How many delegates here voted...
...Maligned distortions drug our thinking," said Hoover. "The slogan of the 'welfare state' . . . has emerged for a totalitarian state . . . These slogans and phrases and . .. vague promises ... frustrate those basic human impulses to production which alone make a dynamic nation...