Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapidly had democracy awakened to the totalitarian challenge? Had it actually awakened at all? Five years ago polls of public opinion showed that most U. S. citizens cared little about foreign affairs, had few opinions about other countries. In 1935 the FORTUNE Survey found citizens least friendly toward Germany (17.3%) and most friendly toward England (28.6%) but 51% made no distinction among foreign powers. Two years later 31% listed Germany as the country they liked least. When the Munich crisis shifted the course of European history, it shifted the course of U. S. public thought. When it was past...
Nazi Abetz, whose wife is a Frenchwoman, ignored conservatives of the Laval-Pétain type, concentrated on such totalitarian-minded Leftists as Gaston Bergery, who launched the phrase "200 families." whose wife is a daughter of Bolshevik Leonid Krassin. Last week Abetz was rumored in Vichy to be the coming strong man of France. That Adolf Hitler would not mind seeing the Pétain Government overthrown was evident when the Berlin radio in a series of broadcasts characterized the men of Vichy as "hyenas tearing at the carcass of dead France," as "buzzards who eat one of their...
...unification of the American Republics against totalitarian political and economic penetration would have been a big diplomatic feat in any period. It was doubly impressive in view of traditional Latin-American fear of "Yankee imperialism," that Communists and Nazis labored desperately to keep alive. Agreement on the fate of threatened European colonies in the Western Hemisphere was a diplomatic achievement for future textbooks. It was more impressive in view of the legend that democracies cannot act fast...
...Attorney General Jackson warned that totalitarian powers were trying "to soften this country as France was softened" by promises of business orders and profits...
Next day this unpopular warning was answered by Franklin Roosevelt himself. A message from the White House to the convention blasted barter, said it would "subject . . . the entire nation to the regimentation of a totalitarian system." Henry Francis Grady, Assistant Secretary of State, followed up his chief's attack in person. His small eyes flashing behind shell-rimmed glasses, Free-Trader Grady tore into protectionism, dictatorship, a "sixth column ... of special interests." Said he: "I cannot believe that the cause of liberal trade is lost...