Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great public sounding board has great influence, and the military extremists who planned Japan's war would have liked to eliminate the Diet. While they were coming to power they had got rid of political parties. They made a start toward a totalitarian Fascist party, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, but so many politicians got on its rolls that it never had much unity. The militarists could not get rid of the Diet because it had been set up by the sacrosanct Imperial Constitution...
...Value of Petain. In the beginning, Marshal Petain had been a natural for Hitler. The old man was a totalitarian and a collaborationist who was also known to many Frenchmen as a French patriot. With his help the French Fleet and the French African bases were neutralized, forming a buffer between Britain and Axis operations in the Mediterranean. With his help democrats were purged from the French Navy, Army and police - a purge which Laval may find very handy...
Moreover, from the German viewpoint, he was overly tender about the feelings of Frenchmen. He would not shoot them, no matter what their crimes against totalitarian progress. He even pardoned (with life imprisonment) zealous young Paul Collette, who last summer pumped bullets into the chest of Pierre Laval...
...Nelson added a quiet understatement of the real significance-in terms of war production-of his totalitarian orders.* "They make possible," said he, "the complete conversion of the men, materials and machine tools formerly devoted to these pursuits to war production." In fact, they make conversion to war work not merely "possible" but mandatory for all manufacturers who need metal and want to stay in business...
...this crumbling process and the human factors that are bringing it about. It also suggests that the process might be speeded up tremendously if a propaganda could be devised that offered to Fascists who are disillusioned with Fascism an alternative that was more than a vaguer version of totalitarian collectivism...