Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mussolini had long been a leading beneficiary of the well-known schizophrenia afflicting U. S. foreign-trade policy; while trying to throttle exports to totalitarian States, Washington has simultaneously tried to stimulate crop exports too. To serve the latter purpose, the U. S. Export-Import Bank gave Italy a credit of $1,567,022 last June, which enabled her to double her cotton purchases here in the first six months of war. It also freed enough Italian cash to buy other things. From last September through February, U. S. shipments to Italy totaled $43,686,000, 54% more than...
...psychically, mentally and even physically tne typical Young Man of Forty. It is this type which forms the new elite of the totalitarian states, and which is dangerously on the rise in this country as well. It is the perennially 'youthful' Leader of the new bureaucracy: ruthless, opportunistic, abnormally ambitious, full of egocentric arrogance, emotionally unstable or arrested, above all radical-reactionary...
...Totalitarian." News cables from London soon gave the world an impression that Britain was on a totalitarian par with the Nazis. The Emergency Powers Defense Act simply authorized the Government, which remains in power only at the will of Parliament, to take almost any desired action by Orders in Council, in which all three of the great British parties are now represented. There was no totalitarian suppression of all parties but one, no totalitarian exaltation of one man as Dictator, no wiping out of the established British press or creation of rubber-stamp Government organs, and no abolition...
...eyes of the law is in no essential way different from the political purges of Italy, Germany, and Russia. Compulsory military training is completely against the American ideal of personal freedom, and leads directly to that choking of individuality which has told so heavily upon the youth of the totalitarian states. And the everyman-a-policeman attitude, strongly encouraged by the F. B. I., that resulted in the unfortunate Grand Rapids incident bears a startling and frightening resemblance to the Gestapo-inspired reign of terror in Germany...
President Conant was introduced by William Allen White, editor of the Emporia, Kansas Gazette and chairman of the Committee. White told of a letter which Conant sent to Governor Alfred M. Landon last September in which he expressed this same feeling that "if the Allies are defeated by a totalitarian power the hope of free institutions as a basis of modern civilization will be jeopardized...