Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trading with a Hitlerized economic bloc in post-war Europe. If Hitler wins, 48.3% thought U. S. business could go along without changing; 35.3% thought reorganization could be confined to foreign trade; only 14.1% thought U. S. domestic and foreign business would have to be reorganized on a totalitarian pattern. Fencing off Southern Latin America with an added fleet appealed to about half (49.8%), undertaking to guarantee its exports as well, appealed to only 19.5%. Though U. S. foreign policy should be directed to "keeping Japanese ambitions within reasonable bounds" (56.2%), most executives thought this could be accomplished peacefully. They...
Nazi Alarm. In Buenos Aires on May 25, Reserve Lieutenant Guillermo Eduardo Nelson Horrocks pronounced a eulogistic defense of totalitarian governments and of Nazi war methods at the annual banquet of the Reserve Officers of the Argentine Armed Forces. Investigation ordered by War Minister Brigadier General Carlos D. Marquez connected Horrocks with an abortive Rightist revolution, touched off a nationwide roundup of Nazi sympathizers, started a systematic examination of German schools...
...Jerusalem meanwhile, the Aga Khan's energetic son Aly Khan broadcast an appeal to all Mohammedans: "Help Britain with all your energy. Religious freedom has received what appears to be a death sentence in those countries which have fallen under totalitarian regimes, whereas it exists untrammeled in all Mohammedan countries where there is British influence...
...surrender certain rights and privileges for a period. . . ." Youth: "Perhaps the supreme tragedy of the present epoch is the fact that the friends of democracy in many lands . . . have failed to present to their children a great and ennobling goal. . . . The apparent enthusiasm and loyalty of youth in totalitarian states are not simply the products of regimentation and propaganda. Their deeper source is found in the fact that these systems have given youth work...
Still elaborately neutral was Pope Pius himself, though Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, has lately found a good word for the totalitarian way of life, in marked contrast to its pro-Ally attitude in the months before Italy entered the war. Meanwhile the Holy See's endorsement of the Petain regime in France brought it minor benefits, such as the Carthusians' return to their Alpine eyrie, the Grande Chartreuse...