Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Redlich does not know whether "truth drugs" are used in totalitarian countries to get confessions; they may not be necessary. "We suspect," he says, "that many of the striking confessions in police states were obtained from severely neurotic, guilt-ridden and self-punitive persons. Such persons are likely to confess without much pressure; but even the less severely disturbed persons with guilt-producing fantasies will confess if ... weakened by prolonged, grueling and humiliating interrogation...
Author William H. Chamberlin advised an immediate coalition with Yugoslavia and Spain, "even though they are totalitarian states. "He urged we get arms "to the people whose interests place them on our side...
...proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle." Her Declaration of Conscience, which six other G.O.P. liberals also signed (TIME, June 12), declared "it is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques...
...million pounds of butter in storage of the Community Credit Corporation; fear of our power, both military and economic--these are the things which feed the fire of hate for us all over the world, and which make bearable to half the world the immeasurable oppression of totalitarian dictatorship; for, what won't we bear while we struggle? Jealousy and fear, these are the causes of aggression, and these we must fight as if we are to end aggression...
Membership in the conference may constitute a problem, Rogers commented; whether to limit membership to "the great universities of the world" or include other educational institutions. The broader question remains of whether to accept institutions of totalitarian states in the association...