Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt many twinges of modesty in his 60 years. Urbane, roly-poly, positive as an electric shock, with a flair for guessing what others are thinking and hiding what he is, Yosuke Matsuoka is ideally suited to ride the second biggest saddle in a near-totalitarian regime. In his own person he symbolizes the collapse of the ideal of collective security: it was he who, with an unlit cigar clenched between his teeth, imperiously beckoned to the Japanese delegates in the great Hall of the League...
These words, which appeared in a Shanghai Japanese newspaper last week, illustrated a familiar truth: the Japanese flair for exact imitation wanders occasionally into the realms of caricature. Last week Japanese leaders were busy as bits of carbon paper trying to copy European totalitarian techniques, and this vituperation was supposed to sound like a last gruff word before a crushing blow, a Hitlerish warning before total obliteration...
...Army can do anything it wants-yet Japan is not a military dictatorship. There are five political parties, but there is no such thing as politics in the real sense of the word: the science of government. In the last three years Japan's Government has seemed totalitarian, but it has actually been unmitigated chaos. Japanese realize this, and have wistfully desired to do something about it. Since the Emperor, the Army and the Constitution are in varying degrees inviolable, it was concluded that the first chaotic element to unify should be the political parties. Japan...
...examples of Naziism and Fascism shone so brightly in Japanese eyes, the idea grew in favor. But when Nazi legions rolled into the Lowlands and France, the Japanese could no longer resist their penchant for imitating a good thing. Late in May, Seiyukai's Kuhara urged a totalitarian party first upon his Seiyukai rival, then on the Minseito leader. Both took to the idea-providing the right leader (not Kuhara) could be found. By June 6 Kuhara had plenty of courage and supporters. On that day he presented Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai with an "ultimatum" proposing a, Nazi-like...
When the Japanese copy, they copy what they can see, and no more. Distinctly visible to them at the top of Europearu totalitarian parties were spectacular strongmen. From the very first it was obvious; that there was only one man to give Japan one party-Prince Fumimaro Konoye. From the outside he looks strong, at least to Japanese...