Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler and his Party are not concerned to bring about juster frontiers in Europe between free peoples or a fairer distribution of colonial territories between the leading nations of the world. Their object is to subjugate others so that they and their resources can be organized on totalitarian lines for the benefit of the German military State. Hitlerism cannot stop and become peaceful. Nazi Germany is organized for war and totalitarian economics and for nothing else. Its economic system, like everything else, is built on fraud. War and preparation for war are its only real remedy for unemployment...
...Totalitarian methods of pressure" would be used by the Axis in the event of a British defeat if they did not even attempt to attack this country directly and immediately. To prevent such dangers, speedy action "to be decided by military authorities on the basis of maximum effectiveness against the Axis powers" should be taken...
...Phillips Oppenheim area of romance, international intrigue and slinky sirens. At a dinner of the National Stevedores Association,* in Washington, one of G-Man Hoover's assistants, Inspector L. R. Pennington, "bared" a "girl spy plot." The stalwart inspector alleged that "a prominent society woman from a totalitarian country" had plotted to hire beautiful but subversive girls, had rented a house in Washington, was ready to install elaborate gambling facilities. Army, Navy, State Department officials were to be lured there, seduced by roulette or poulette, and their defense secrets extracted...
Working with Army and extremists, the Cabinet had devised a totalitarian economic plan patterned closely on German and Italian models. At the last minute Japanese industrialists opened up on the Government with an artillery of complaints and objections. All 17 directors of Japan Iron Manufacturing Co.. the largest Japanese enterprise of its kind, resigned and publicly predicted trouble ahead for the steel industry. By the time the broad principles of the New Economic Structure were announced this week, the plan had been watered down. The platform reached the following compromise: "Private industrial enterprise is to be the basis...
Total national forces assembled in massive fashion and directed against individual nations are difficult to withstand. We do not propose to adopt totalitarian principles or methods based upon them, but in order to defend ourselves successfully we must contrive our policies of counterattack. Our new democratic policies will call for administrative management of very high quality-superior personnel, superior fiscal management, superior planning, superior methods and practices-blending together the highest available skills of industrial management, military management, public administration; and summoning ability to meet emerging situations for many of which there will be found no precedents...