Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stubbornly totalitarian, angrily neutral Argentine Government of President Pedro Ramirez again took a stiff rebuke from another great nation which has been Argentina's good friend. From Britain, along with a new purchasing agreement, came a sharp qualification...
Mike Conner, campaigning this year, fired both barrels at the New Deal. Sample: "There is now being waged in this country an internal political, economic and social revolution which would change the form of our government to an absolute totalitarian state of communism or national socialism. They would destroy individual enterprise, regiment and socialize the people, nullify the Constitution and destroy the states. . . . For my part I will fight for States' rights as long as I breathe...
...people of Argentina were getting the idea. As civilians they were to do nothing to show favor toward either side in the war-not even talk. And with the idea came a growing realization that Ramirez and his clique of generals and admirals* were remodeling Argentina along well-tested totalitarian lines. In six weeks the Government...
...Government's fear of Communism is another stimulant to Turkish suspicion. Modern Turkey is organized on strict totalitarian lines and is the product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...
...control shackles, Professor Laski labors under the desperate fear that the end of experiment will mean a reaction of exhaustion and apathy. He insists that capitalist economy be removed while the war is in progress; if it is not, he believes that nothing can prevent disillusionment, upheaval and violence. "Totalitarian war compels men to live on the heights [where] they can see vistas which become obscure once more when, as the challenge is overcome, they descend again into the valley. . . . Great leadership would take advantage of [the present] mood...