Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand and Latin-America on the other there is an ideological and cultural split which could be narrowed but never bridged. Latin dispositions and ideas are as diametrically opposed as the conga and the square dance. There can be little in common between a democratic America and a totalitarian Brazil; Brazil, a country larger in area than the United States with an overwhelmingly illiterate population ruled by a complete dictator, can have little interest in preserving democracy. Economically Canada, the United States, and Central America are a unit in that the predominant part of the trade of this area moves...
...with brand-new catchwords and justified by brand-new reasoning. Rousseau's "natural equality of men," for which Frenchmen once fought a bloody revolution, would be discarded for a "social hierarchy" under which rich & poor, high & low, would have equal opportunities to prove their worth by serving the totalitarian State. The only "right" accorded impartially to all Frenchmen would be to work. Liberty, Pétain told his countrymen, had not existed in France for 20 years. "Besides, what would abstract liberty be worth in 1940 to an unemployed workman or the proprietor of a small ruined business beyond...
...Seattle, labor, in Omaha, the farm problem, in Cleveland, defense, in Pittsburgh, again labor. But between these talks that bore on what he planned to do if elected were reaffirmations of principles-harking back to the pattern of democratic education (Coffeyville), to the position of women in democratic and totalitarian societies (Detroit)-as if he were attempting to link moral, educational and ethical issues with his case for a freely competitive, economic order and the system of government based upon it. Underlying these two themes was another-his denial of the doctrine of class struggle in America, a denial that...
With Hungary largely under German domination Hitler might be able to launch an attack on the Ukraine from the new Hungarian frontier which lies in the passes of the Carpathians. From there his Army would have a downhill run to the plains. With a friendly totalitarian government in Rumania he might be able to launch his attack on the plains themselves...
...cloak of mystery, to mask its progress with high, forbidding fences. This is an unwise attitude. The completion of the building requires student supervision. Only under the watchful eye of students can the work continue safely and efficiently; for, if the construction is supervised only by a totalitarian oligarchy of contractors, countless dangers are imminent...