Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need for the purge will not diminish with the growing stability of the totalitarian regime," he says. "It appears to be a perpetual process of shifting, reshifting, eliminating, pushing down, promoting, intimidating." The book is based on Soviet sources and reports of former citizens...
...purge is necessary, he says, since a totalitarian regime lacks the standards and methods to encourage change and mobility, and the close contact between leaders and people fostered by a constitutional form of government...
...Totalitarian leadership tends to over-estimate the basis of its strength and to be misled by the appearances of universal support which it requires from all the citizens...
...proclaimed last week by President Carlos Castillo Armas, was a model of good intentions. Major changes: ¶ Churches and religious orders, denied legal status since Guatemala's anticlerical laws of the 1870s, get back full lawful rights, including the right to own property. ¶ The Communist and other totalitarian parties are banned, along with all Communist activity by individuals or groups. ¶ The National University is guaranteed 2% of the national budget. ¶ The exiling of citizens, hitherto a favored political punishment, is forbidden (though a temporary clause permits Castillo Armas to override the ban for the time being...
...championship of smearing has passed from Senator McCarthy to the Prime Minister. His election motto is ten smears a day to keep the doctor at bay." But wherever he went, the cry of "Molotov" brought shouts of laughter from his audience. Evatt attacked the Communist Party as "totalitarian in method and antidemocratic in character." But as fast as he shed his red feathers, the Communists stuck them back. A Communist-dominated union collected funds for his campaign; Communist mobs heckled Menzies. Said Menzies: "It takes a Communist mob to try to break up my meetings. Let them yell. It will...