Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a tremendous task. A totalitarian State can speak with one voice, its master's, can marshal all its logic, force and facts into one strong propaganda line. But a democracy, by its very nature, is a land of many voices. It can have no single speaking tube; it cannot have a single propaganda line, because its only propaganda is that it has none. The U.S., as a free nation, can only propagandize its freedom-and freedom includes the right of men to dissent from their Government, to strike, to vote against it, to cry out against...
...among the ten percent of each age group who normally study arts and letters in our colleges which will determine the future of our freedom. It is the attitude of the other 90 per cent which will be the controlling factor in our ability to resist an attack of totalitarian ideas...
Rumania's claim to be a state capable of keeping law & order, even totalitarian law & order, clearly hung by fewer threads than ever. Only five Rumanian divisions and a German force of less than a division remained to prevent anarchy. That was not all Antonescu had to worry about last week. German Ambassador Baron Manfred von Killinger was reported to have told him: "A situation might arise when Rumania will have to face the menace of a Russian invasion...
...Japanese betrayal of the Kellogg-Brian compact began the downhill course. Following the Manchurian invasion, Secretary Stimson foresaw repetition of the same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility." As the Rhineland, Austria, Sudeten, and Czechoslovakia fell in simple order, the aggrandizement of Hitler drew outraged warnings from Washington. And in the Far East, we hurled verbal brickbats at Japanese participation...
...year period engaged, in a war for which she was woefully unprepared. But in the final analysis, the entire lack of unity, as explained by the embracing foreword, was based on the gap between the foresight of the Executive and the relative caution of popular opinion. As totalitarian brutality slowly converted the American public and molded it behind its Administration, American diplomacy began to ring with the note of determination. Finally, following Pearl Harbor, isolationism, in its original shape, died, and "Peace and War" is able to conclude with the proud conclusion that the country is finally united in face...