Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James R. Gleason, assistant Chief of Customs for the Port of New York, pointed out that Cock was burned for wizardry in 1874 at his Haitiau villa. "Haiti may have been totalitarian in 1874," said Gleason, "for all we know...
...letter of the law did not give much choice. It banned any alien who "at any time" had been "affiliated" with any "section, branch, affiliate, or subdivision" of any "totalitarian party." Under Hitler, nearly every youth was forced to join one or another of the Hitler Youth organizations; nearly every man who worked for a living had to belong to a Nazi-dominated labor union. In Italy, every school was a Fascist school. Officials estimated that the new law would exclude 90% of all Germans, more than half of all Italians. It would bar all repentant Communists, interfere with trade...
State was considering making a distinction between "nominal" and "undeniable" totalitarian governments. No one had yet grappled with another provision of the law: a requirement that the Attorney General round up and deport all aliens now in the country who cannot qualify under the law. Throwing in the sponge, the Republican New York Herald Tribune admitted sadly: "This newspaper sees no alternative save to grant the President his revenge and insist on amendment of the worst features of the law as soon as the extra session reconvenes...
...American college girls; their visit was to be sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Fund under the auspices of the State Department. In excluding them, the State Department said only that it was acting under the McCarran Act provision prohibiting admission of people who have been affiliated with a "totalitarian" organization...
Before the outcry grew any louder, State hastily worked out a makeshift compromise. All those whom the Times described as "undeniable totalitarians" -whatever that meant-would be barred from the U.S. But a distinction would be made between citizens of a "nominal" totalitarian government, and individuals whose aim it is to overthrow the U.S. government. That still left all borderline cases up in the air. But it was the best that State could do-at least until Congress returns in November for another look...