Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers ever murder their prisoners, only the Franco side ever lies. Frequently, Author Bowers sounds more like a pamphleteer than a competent historian, e.g., "It is ironical that the diplomatic representative of every nation soon to be trodden neath the iron heel of Hitler was openly smiling on the totalitarian crusade against democracy in Spain." Bowers writes much better when he is telling of his prewar rambles around the Spain he loved so well: Holy Week in Seville, wine-tasting in Jerez de la Frontera, a fiesta in Toledo, the running of the bulls in the streets of Pamplona...
...candidate for governor spoke in opposition. The Atlanta Constitution, one of the most important papers in the state, criticized the "totalitarian document...
According to Moskoff the major problem of the investigators is the kind of subversive being" sought and dismissed: "It is plain that any person who actively supports a totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership... in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the KuKlux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action...
...providing for Japanese rearmament with U.S. aid (opposed by the left-wingers) had been passed. Yoshida wanted one more piece of legislation disposed of: a bill to abolish local police forces in favor of a national force organized by prefects. Opponents argued that this would bring back the prewar totalitarian character of Japan's police. Yoshida's Liberals replied that the country could not afford overlapping police forces, and that there was no danger that a national force would become oppressive, since it would be supervised by a civilian commission...
...Eisenhower in the same net. For such an effort might dissuade the President from continuing his offensive against the Senator, or, at best, make his task harder. To play partisan politics at this time will confuse and hinder what is shaping up as a bipartisan drive to destroy this totalitarian thug, and restore party competition to the area of trust where it must be to survive in a democracy...