Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Bar Center in Chicago. Said he: "It is fitting that we have this dedicatory service in a house of God [i.e., the University of Chicago chapel]. Here we give notice to all that, in the world struggle between the forces of freedom and the godless totalitarian state, we rededicate ourselves to the principle that God's way is our way. It is [also fitting] that the site for our home [adjoins] one of the great universities of the world ... a constant reminder to us [to] insist upon man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof...
Frederick Woltman performed a public service in his recent series on Senator McCarthy [TIME, July 19]. Those of us who equate Communism with those other totalitarian movements, Naziism and Fascism, have been watching the conduct of McCarthy with mixed feelings...
...shot-down R.A.F. pilot I spent four years and 359 days in Germany reflecting on the virtues of appeasement of totalitarian governments and cannot but be dismayed at the ostrich-rump aspect presented by so many British leaders today. Your Senator Knowland seems to me to be your most intelligent and sensible statesman, and it is ironical that he is today doing his best to apprise the free world of its dangers from the world-Communism concept in precisely the same way as Churchill warned Britain [in 1938-39] of Nazi strength and aims . . . Peaceful coexistence is a dangerous delusion...
...nine days before the board, Melish insisted that Christianity and Communism are striving for the same social reforms, "each according to its own lights and philosophy." He added that the American Communist Party is using "democratic, constitutional processes." Asked whether Russia is totalitarian or a dictatorship, Melish snorted: "Emotional labels...
Some of John's old friends still could not believe it. "He is absolutely a man of Western ideas." said a Bonn diplomat. "He was against all totalitarian systems, Nazi and Communist," said a Berlin colleague. But whether he had sold out, defected, or had been lured across, the ugly fact was that, voluntarily or involuntarily, Otto John could give the Communists more valuable information than anyone since Klaus Fuchs...