Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy's highest-ranking officers, Marshal Enrico Caviglia, chose this critical moment to give Il Duce and his undernourished country some sound advice. In a sensational preface to a book, Totalitarian Warfare and Its Conduct, he declared: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary. In his calculations the military forces will not have the primary place, but rather the economic and financial forces." If Italian cinemagoers, stockbrokers and generals were uncomfortable about...
...People's Political Council is scarcely more representative than Adolf Hitler's Reichstag. But what sets China apart from stock-in-trade totalitarian states, and what has kept the people of Britain, France and the U. S. behind her, is that China wants to be a democracy. Long ago Generalissimo Chiang promised his country a republican constitution. One of the main reasons for Communist hostility to his regime has been his failure to implement that promise. But Chiang Kai-shek believes his people must hang on the vines a little longer before they will be ripe for democracy...
...That President Roosevelt's foreign policy would be to: 1) denounce the totalitarian States; 2) accelerate war preparations in the U. S.; 3) tolerate no compromise with the totalitarian States on the part of Britain and France; 4) advance moral assurance that the U. S. would in the event of war "participate ac tively on the side of France and Britain...
...Every Balkan nation lives in fear of some sort of revisionist aggression. Caught in a triangle more tragic than any dramatist could invent, Central Europe depends on Germany, fears Russia, looks to Italy for police protection. After the Finnish collapse, Scandinavia too fell under the strategic hegemony of the totalitarian powers...
...daughter of Thomas Mann, is valuable as a discussion of important elements in Germany and in the German character which Europe's rebuilders will have to face. Like Rauschning, the Manns are weak on analysis of the tremendous economic problem that will arise if the totalitarian state is defeated. But their book is a strong and pertinent reminder of the cultural resilience and political talent Germany displayed under the Weimar Republic (whose constitution was as liberal a one as Europe had ever seen). If Europe after World War II is to be federal, as they hope, the Manns provide...