Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the standpoint of pure economic theory, Staehle admitted complete control of wages and prices, for the farm as well as for the factory, on the totalitarian scheme, is a way of checking inflation...
...year-old Chicago businessman and onetime soldier was alarmed at the foreign policy of the President who as early as 1937 left no doubt of his opposition to totalitarian aggression. The General believed it was drawing the country into a European war on the side of Britain. He was sure that Hitler could not invade the U.S. across 3,000 miles of ocean. He believed that England could defend herself, and could, if she would, make a negotiated peace with Germany by which she could keep her fleet and colonies and leave to Germany economic control of the Continent...
Last week Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aired his gift for soft phrase: "In the past," he said, "France was divided into two camps-Capital and Labor. But today we propose to install harmony and understanding between these groups. ..." His totalitarian meaning was clear. He was busy installing, drawing up plans for a corporative state in the Italian style...
...reviewing the events of the past year that have brought the clouds of war even closer than 12 months ago, he stated that "the new national objective will soon change in many ways our mode of life," and that we must be ready to oppose the totalitarian influence from abroad and make democracy work in times of crisis. "We can only do so if each individual is willing through self-imposed discipline to make sacrifices for the ideals he worships...
...entering as Freshmen graduate from this College," he continued. "At best, a time of emergency is not a time for the flowering of individuality, for tensions are high and conformity rather than diversity is at a premium." He pointed out, however, we must guard against the danger of totalitarian methods sweeping aside our democratic institutions in time of crisis...