Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pound Their Heads." A flurry of political activity followed. The Political Association of Great Japan, the nation's totalitarian party, prepared to disband-and to reorganize under new colors. The East Asia Federation, a patriotic society, made ready to enter politics; its leader seemed likely to be fanatical Lieut. General Kanji Ishihara, a retired Kwantung Army sword-rattler who helped plot the Manchurian adventure...
...philosophy was recognized in references to free access to the news of eastern Europe; to "free and unfettered" elections in Poland; to a democratic Germany. Some of those checks would be hard to cash. Even so, the three signatures on them meant something to a world recovering from one totalitarian menace and fearful of another...
Strong Medicine. Obviously, peace would not automatically end the restrictions. Strong medicine was needed to cure a totalitarian economic practice which, uncured, might dry up world trade and lead to government control over domestic as well as foreign commerce...
...convinced Communism on the Russian model is not expressive of the Czech people. ... It is likely to wane rather than wax unless directly or indirectly assisted by force and chicane. . . . The Czechs do not want a totalitarian state...
Japan's aged (77) Premier Kantaro Suzuki shuffled through a round of desperate political activity. One day he sat through a five-hour emergency session of his Cabinet. The same day he talked long and earnestly with flinty General Jiro Minami, boss of the ultra-totalitarian Political Association of Great Japan. Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report. At the Meiji and Yasakuni shrines he prayed for the destruction of his country's enemies. Finally, with the Emperor looking on, he stood...