Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal to alter these circumstances had yet been made by her Axis neighbors, the Swiss last week were worried. German troops, completing the occupation of France, had closed Switzerland's last corridor to the outside world: the land was now an isolated little democratic anomaly deep inside totalitarian Europe. The intensification of German propaganda inside Switzerland led many Swiss to believe that Germany might like to fill the last lacuna in this Pan-Germanic ideal sooner rather than later. German propaganda was attacking Switzerland with a regularity that suggested a conscious campaign. The Swiss Nazi paper Die Front...
Franco and his generals owed their dismal success very largely to Germany and Italy. Their political philosophies and totalitarian methods coincided. But last week Axis sentiment was being subordinated to tough expediency. Internally, Spain was a caldron. Thousands were starving. Eighty food products were strictly rationed, including, nearly all staples. Railroads and roads were in bad repair. The country needed oil, grain, machinery, rolling stock-obtainable from...
...British Army, who was this author, does something very few of even the best-posted military observers do: he criticizes before the fact. This habit apparently was responsible for his being retired from the British Army in 1933. He kept saying that the British were being outsmarted by the totalitarian powers, that the R.A.F. was being neglected, that failure to mechanize was suicidal, and that war would soon demonstrate the weaknesses of the popular Liddell Hart defense-is-the-best-defense theory...
Last week the men of Vichy gave the impression that they were readier to crumble than to conquer. The querulous, totalitarian old figurehead, Marshal Petain, quavered in a letter to President Roosevelt: "It is with stupor and sadness that I learned tonight of the aggression of your troops. ... It is you [who] have taken such a cruel initiative...
...startling account of the genesis of totalitarianism in Rousseau, the French Revolution and Karl Marx, Drucker makes clear why the old "Anglo-American liberals" could never have become totalitarians. They believed in Christianity and in man's imperfection. Hence the only kind of government that made sense to them was a government of checks and balances. All modern governments, except the American and British, have indulged in the totalitarian fallacy to a dangerous and often fatal degree. And even the British and Americans have recently given in to it under the pressure of discordant social forces...