Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful, prosperous, and safe for democracy. Such prophecies are likely to inspire a faintly sickening nostalgia for the good old days of 1917-19, when America was young and innocent. No, Mr. Roosevelt, let's be realistic. Maybe we really will win, and maybe we won't go totalitarian. But can there be any doubt that the Clemenceaus and the Lloyd Georges will gather 'round again, that just as war hysteria is whipped up, so will be the hysteria of punishment for Germany? There will be an irresistible demand to lay the aggressors so low that they can never again...
Stalling of the war in China gave Toyama and his henchmen a chance for a comeback. They indirectly allied themselves with Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye's drive to abolish political parties and set up a totalitarian State. By last week their operations had become considerably more open...
...live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern, totalitarian youth movement, Yuvachon, are forced to wear shoes to drill, but on the way home happily carry them in their hands...
...custom-made midseason collection, without any help from Paris, was full of excitement about fine textiles and exclusive gewgaws that she had been able to coax out of hitherto mass-production-minded U. S. manufacturers. Said Mr. Gimbel: "The Paris of the old days is not the Paris under totalitarian government. Schiaparelli is either misguided-or under the influence of the Vichy Government...
This war, therefore, is not a war between nations like the last war. It is more of a revolution than a war-a revolutionary war waged by Hitler and his military totalitarian machine against all other nations and the free world in which we have lived, so as to make them military, political and economic satellites of a totalitarian world empire. Then, Hitler will have given the world peace-the peace of death -and employment, the employment of a slave...