Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical blockade. On the other hand they are the last persons to have any illusion of the Communists being angels of democracy, as many of China's critics would like us to believe. No thinking person would accept the supposition that any Communist regime could be less totalitarian than any other form of government...
...secret police. In carrying its ideals abroad, it had developed a new tactic in power politics - the appeal to the foreign masses to organize, conspire and ultimately revolt against the dominant classes in their respective countries. The promise was that when the socialist organization of abundance was complete, the totalitarian state would dissolve of its own superfluousness in a new kind of classless democracy. To most Americans and western Europeans this was the uncertain ideal, dictatorship, the inescapable fact...
Stripped to the bare facts, that situation was that Chungking, a dictatorship ruling high-handedly in order to safeguard the last vestiges of democratic principles in China, was engaged in an undeclared civil war with Yenan, a dictatorship whose purpose was the spread of totalitarian Communism in China. At the same time Chungking was locked in a life & death struggle with Japan...
...some solid grounds for hope-Don Juan of Bourbon, 31, only non-hemophilic son of Spain's late ex-King Alfonso XIII. From his Swiss villa on Lake Geneva, where he will stay until the skiing season opens, the Infante made it known that he was against "totalitarian policies," was "calmly and confidently" waiting for a call to Madrid. He had reason. Britain might right royally welcome a monarch in that bulwark of Empire, Spain...
...Then Dunkirk had come and Britain stood alone against totalitarian might and night. The cigar chewer had said: ". . . We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry...