Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting a "good" war from an ethical point of view. Now we are convinced that if a war is worth fighting it's worth fighting well. We believe that there can be no middle ground between the way of life of the democratic countries and that of the totalitarian powers. Democracy in any form cannot survive in a world dominated by Hitlerism, and Hitlerism cannot survive in a world it cannot dominate. We have thrown in our lot with our ideological allies, England and China, and our military ally, Russia. We must be prepared, if necessary, to crush Fascism...
...While totalitarian terror raged in Paris (see above), in Vichy last week the sculptors of French Fascism carved away at their totalitarian work, pausing only to throttle those critics they could get their hands...
...Vichy moved three officers whose fealty to Vichy seemed unquestioned. Fair-faced, jolly General Alphonse Pierre Juin, 55, became Commander of Vichy's Moroccan forces. Just a month ago the Nazis saw fit to release General Juin from a German prison camp. Fellow officers have often noted his totalitarian sympathies. Suave, dark General Jean Josèphe Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny became commander of Vichy's Tunisian troops. His name has often been linked with the pre-war Croix de Feu (fascists) and Cagoulards (monarchist terrorists). To command the French Mediterranean Fleet, Vichy appointed young Admiral...
...year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary...
...hating, gallows-dancing, isolationist editorials, cartoons and news. One News editorial played variations on the theme: "[The Administration] is accused of keeping the war scare pumped up to frightful proportions in order that it may quietly and under pretext of wartime emergency transform our democracy into some sort of totalitarian state, before many of us know what is happening...