Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what-is-best-for-the-U. S.; the hands-off patience of the President; the lack of political tricks and pressures; the general objectivity of the press-all these seemed to be examples of what campaigners have called the American way of doing things, a slow way, inefficient by totalitarian standards, but in which no individual's rights are lost. Said Scripps-Howard's Columnist Ray Clapper: "Doing it the slower way means that when the Lend-Lease Bill is passed it will stand as the deliberate and considerate action of Congress, taken after full and fair hearing...
...chess, war or the smash-&-grab of totalitarian diplomacy, the essence of strategy is to make a single move serve more than one offensive purpose. Strategically impeccable, therefore, was Japan's move-of-the-week, landing eight Army columns along a 250-mile strip of South China coast between Hong Kong and the Indo-China border. It was intended: 1) to menace one of free China's best supply lines; 2) to help isolate British Hong Kong; 3) to strengthen the position of the large Japanese garrison on Hainan Island just off the coast; 4) to make...
...Arias of Panama announced that his country had granted the U. S. the right to build air bases anywhere in Panama for defense of the Canal. This was the first agreement on bases to be concluded in Latin America. Panama's new President is one of the most totalitarian-minded and nationalistic of Latin America's caudillos.* Someone must have had to persuade him thoroughly before he agreed to this Good Neighborly gesture...
...credo of the new organization is: "We do not minimize the serious and far-reaching implications of direct military action for the economy and institutions of the United States. But we believe that a totalitarian victory would constitute a more serious threat to the economic, political, and moral aspects of the American way of life than a war to prevent such a victory...
...Praying that the bill of costs may be as low as possible, we urge the United States to extend to the enemies of totalitarianism, especially the British Commonwealth of Nations, all the aid which may be necessary to insure the defeat of the totalitarian states...