Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan, enormously costly, emergency in nature, totalitarian in control, was Franklin Roosevelt's answer to the desperate news from abroad. Last week, with the first unmistakable nips of Nazi economic pincers in South America (see p. 32), the need for U. S. action became desperately urgent. This plan for all-American economic defense became the biggest "must" on the Government's program...
...soon be cut off from all contact with the mother country she has worried for so long. Japan looked southward toward almost defenseless prizes (see below). Much of Africa was about to change hands; much of the rest was being fought over (see p. 25). South America shook with totalitarian scares (see p. 32). The U. S. was far from safe (see p. 14). As far as the sun courses, chaos or dread uncertainty reigned. The British Empire, bastion of things-as-they-have-been since the days of Queen Elizabeth and Shakespeare, stood tottering...
...hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the Western World . . . the whole of our sympathies lie with those nations which are giving their life blood in combat against those forces." Ended was the Utopian hope that the U. S. could remain an island of democracy in a totalitarian world: "Such an island represents to me and to the overwhelming majority of Americans today a helpless nightmare of a people without freedom, a people lodged in prison, handcuffed, hungry, and fed through the bars from day to day by the contemptuous, unpitying masters of other continents." Ended was the vacillating...
...barricades of the imagination fixed in the U. S. mind. Towering was the first one: the U. S. had no part in Europe's wars. Imposing was the next: bumbling and awkward U. S. democracy could not move so swiftly and efficiently in a crisis as could the totalitarian States. Behind these bastions lay fixed ideas like trenches: the Midwest was forever Isolationist; Labor could never make peace; the unemployed could never be absorbed; the U. S. was running down. Like some great chain of fortifications called impregnable because it had never been attacked, they stretched to the mind...
...Actress Gaby Deslys, was deposed in 1910 and after a short revolution a republic was proclaimed. Between 1910 and 1926, 40 Governments and 18 revolutions followed in rapid succession. Then the Army took control, placed General (now President) Carmona in power, and paved the way for the totalitarian Estado Novo under a tight-fisted dictator, Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...