Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When SPAB last week announced that it was preparing allocation (i. e., rationing) of "all critical materials throughout American industry," it sounded like big stuff, all-out, almost totalitarian. But Washington correspondents were not impressed, and they were right...
...chewing flames. Small wonder that Tokyo's Hochi, supposedly Nazi-controlled, declared that Premier Tojo's opening address "fell short of expectations and turned out rather commonplace." Army & Diet. For ten years Japan's military extremists, recently egged on by their Nazi friends, had agitated for totalitarianism. By September 1940 the political parties had been dissolved. An attempt had been made to form a single totalitarian party called the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. And there was talk of somehow circumventing the Diet-at its best little more than a sounding board for public opinion...
...population is 60% to 70% illegitimate. The women "roll big black cigars on their thighs, and puff them stolidly," but a European woman may be stoned if she wears slacks. President General Don Higinio Morinigo, a young man whose "black hair starts an inch above his brows," has "pronounced totalitarian sympathies," but has taken "fairly strong action against Fifth Columnism...
Squeezed between totalitarian Spain and totalitarian France, the little valley Republic of Andorra in the Pyrenees this week took a step away from democracy. From Madrid came word that Andorra's 5,000-odd shepherds and their families no longer enjoy universal suffrage. Only heads of families may now vote in elections...
...admit it, the economy of Panama depends mostly on the U.S. and the Panama Canal. In his year as President, Arnulfo Arias did his best to make Panama over for Panamanians. He made some threatening faces at the U.S., wrote himself up a neat new constitution with a totalitarian flavor. The constitution extended President Arias' own term, established some profitable Government monopolies, gave the President power to expropriate private property and even take over dictatorial control of the Government...