Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany's meat ration is one pound, 1.6 ounces per person per week. Germany takes pride that, under totalitarian control, her wholesale food prices have advanced only .5% while Great Britain's are up 24%. In World War I, Britain did not ration meat until February...
...means to be confused with the totalitarian form of the Italian corporative state, the guild system of Pius XI was blueprinted by the U. S. bishops only to this extent: "The chief qualifications of these vocational groups or guilds . . . are that they are autonomous, embrace whole industries and professions, are federated with other constituent groups, possess the right of free organization, assembly and vote, and that they should dedicate them selves to the common good and with governmental protection and assistance function in the establishment of justice and the general welfare in economic life...
...fascist pattern. Attracting members with the homespun slogan of "Yankee traditions", the YAA was soon busy disseminating thinly disguised anti-Catholic propaganda. Once they were in, Mr. James gave them arm bands, had them buy red shirts, and revealed to them the deeper aim of the organization: founding a totalitarian, one-party state in which Catholics would have no part. Pamphlets were publicly distributed, for example, in which James railed against "this Mick pestilence" and said, "Rome, the Italian International, must pack up its baggage and go." But privately, James went even farther; at a recent meeting he told Lyford...
Asked what he thought would emergency eventually as a result of the war in Europe Mr. Lewis predicted "a new and reinvigorated democracy." He foresaw the liquidation of the totalitarian regimes...
...proper frenzy. But there was a new note of genuine desperation. "This is no potato war," said Herr Goebbels, "but will bring a decision on our future. . . . We will either relinquish our position as a united people and a big power or win. . . . Germany is fighting a totalitarian war, calling on both the front and the homeland, if not for the same sacrifices, then for the same national duty. In this war we are fighting for bare existence...