Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is that Asia has a background of political despotism and this traditions lends itself to the modern totalitarian developments. Out best chance of getting stability in the Far East, in addition to a balance of power system, between China and Japan, lies in securing a situation in which revolutionary China is checked from being warlike aboard of toward as while left to work out her own destiny internally...
Your April 2 account of the Nation's attempt by a libel suit to stop the perfectly legitimate and justified criticism of its pro-Soviet foreign editor, J. Alvarez del Vayo, is typical of the double standard of morality of all "totalitarian-liberals." It was bad enough that the Nation refused to publish Mr. Creenberg's mild letter. But to resort to police methods to prevent its publication elsewhere betrays the hollowness of the Nation's claims to being a liberal periodical. Were the many individuals whom the Nation criticizes on political grounds to resort to libel...
Behind those proposals in Sorokin's feeling that "our government is no less aggressive than the Soviet government. We are already 75 percent totalitarian." It is not the Russian or American people, he contended, but the rulers who are behind all the trouble...
...other side of the discussion, Dr. Vincent A. McCrossen, professor of philology at Boston College, said that such an argument against federal aid was totalitarian, and that state support of public schools alone violates the Catholic's individual rights and would set up an "oriental caste system...
...would literally gyrate right out of their caskets if it were suggested that the bellicose monstrosity on your cover represented their beloved liberty tree full grown. Obviously, with some radical pruning, the awful thing could be made to look presentable at the top, but surgery will hardly stop the totalitarian termites beginning to multiply within its roots...