Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether they relish it or not. Author Schuman sees that they get it, for he belongs to the totalitarian school of liberals and this is his way of saying: Boo! He wants his readers to understand that the history of Europe's last decade is going to be the history of the human race for an unforeseeable future-unless they do something drastic about it soon...
...would also bring Russia and others into the Union. For if the democracies cannot unite the world, he warns, the Nazis can and will-and their union will not include the parliament of man and the federation of the world. "The ambitious Caesars of the totalitarian states, almost alone among contemporary rulers, have faced the problem of unifying the world and have acted to achieve a solution." Ugly as it is, Schuman thinks "the Pax Germanica beckons the majority of men," since it offers a solution more tolerable than the anarchy of Europe's last two decades...
Just 19 months after the Methodist Church, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, had gone on record that it would never "officially support, endorse or participate in war." its bishops met in Georgia last week, declared: "There can be no peace in the world until totalitarian threat against the liberties of all freedom-loving people is thoroughly eradicated. Our duty, as American citizens, is clear....The Methodists of America will loyally support our President and our nation...
Greatest challenge was the triumphant emergence of a new human type, totalitarian man-superbly armed, deliberately destructive and dominant-at the very heart of what had been Europe's cultural sanctuaries. To this grim fact of 1940 men tried to readjust themselves in 1941 in books like Eugene Bagger's For the Heathen Are Wrong ($3); Gottfried Leske's I Was a Nazi Flier ($2.50); Hermann Rauschning's The Conservative Revolution ($2.75); William Henry Chamberlain's The World's Iron...
...laid in a Communist prison. In one scene an imprisoned Communist taps through his cell wall to ask why his neighbor, a Tsarist officer, has first refused, then sent him cigarets. The nameless, faceless, voiceless Tsarist, the type of the repudiated man, taps back his reason to the totalitarian who once thought he was the hope of the world: "Decency-something your kind will never understand...