Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are a good many members of American university faculties who are sincerely opposed to the policies of our government with respect to foreign relations and national preparedness. There are some who believe that the totalitarian countries will leave us alone if we leave them alone. There are others who are ardent pacifists and object to the use of force even for the purpose of defending civilization against barbarism. We of the Harvard Group are convinced that these men are grievously mistaken in thinking that the freedom which they and we cherish can be preserved except by strengthening...
Last week news of the U. S. in foreign affairs jumped to the crisis category. It began with reports of the State Department's reaction to Japan in Indo-China. It ended with news of a world coalition of totalitarian powers directed, for the first time since the Holy Alliance, against...
...Muddle. That there was plenty of muddle as the civilian army took shelter, the whole London press frankly testified. Most of the confusion came, as Lord Horder remarked, because of "the use of shelters for a purpose for which they were not originally intended, namely as dormitories." Even totalitarian Berlin has insufficient shelters for dormitory purposes. London is up against appalling conditions of insanitation, lack of adequate toilet facilities and foul air as tens of thousands of people spend night after night sleeping on subway platforms, nodding on escalators which have been stopped until dawn, and huddled or sprawled...
...nation still dazed by war, heading toward famine, and sick to death of itself, Petain expounded totalitarian economic theory in the form of three basic principles: 1) organization of professions on a corporative basis within which elements of enterprise can thrash out their difficulties; 2) arbitration by the State of all disputes otherwise incapable of settlement; 3) State control of corporations to adjust national production in accordance with domestic markets and the possibilities of foreign trade...
...world's people and 40% of its trade, warned that if the U. S. entered the war it, too, would become a dictatorship. He bade the U. S. prepare to do business with the dictators. Said he: "The idea of the free States combining against the totalitarian nations in trade is just nonsense. The world has to live, and moreover the interests of the free States are too divergent to consummate any such combination." For U. S. economic defense, he proposed classic remedies: more research in pure and applied science, more industrial efficiency, more labor-saving devices...