Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first importance that we consider how we shall preserve freedom after the war is won. I say we are agreed as to the basic issue of the war. For there can be doubts only in the minds of those who either fail to understand the full implications of the totalitarian philosophy or secretly admire...
...some later day, as we struggle through the confusion of a post-war world it will be your task as citizens of the United States to see to it that a totalitarian virus does not corrupt this nation. That will require clear thinking, indomitable patience, and an understanding of the ways of peace. The two assignments--of war and peace--are paradoxically the same and yet far different. As regards methods, miles apart. Indeed, the winning of the war could engender such conditions in our minds that we would be unable to preserve liberty when the time of peace...
...Examining the changes necessary for members of a free society in moving from civilian capacity to the status of soldier, he will stress particularly the problems which the soldier must keep in mind for attention and settlement after the war. The system of ethics in use in free and totalitarian societities will also be contrasted...
Confronted with price controls and short ages, no nation, democratic or totalitarian, has ever escaped "black markets" - the widespread sale of scarce goods outside the normal channels of distribution. Not even the sentence of death (now imposed in Germany) keeps economic man from trading at an off-the-record price. Trouble is that this is lawbreaking and a happy hunting ground for the racketeer...
Author Rich's book is one of the most incongruous that ever became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the middle of a world war. Its 322 pages do not have the slightest connection with totalitarian wickedness or the fire power of the General Sherman tank. The book is a pleasant, intelligent account of how it feels to live in a remote corner of the Maine woods...