Word: totalitarian
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None of his own totalitarian activity, which his strong right-hand man, Major General Mirza, defines as "controlled democracy," appeals much to Ghulam Mohammed. A man disabled by a stroke and half-paralyzed, trained by crack British civil servants to rule by law, Ghulam does not really like being a dictator. He sometimes talks about reconvening the Constituent Assembly-which he dissolved last October-and about calling for Pakistan's first general elections. Ghulam's advisers argue, however, that restoring democracy would mean restoring chaos. The Federal Court ruled fortnight ago that Ghulam's "controlled democracy...
...been used. Europe, the birthplace and stronghold of conscription, has been devastated by wars since its introduction in 1789. It did not assure victory to Germany, Japan and Italy. These who have lived by the sword have perished by the sword. In adopting conscription we are using totalitarian methods to fight totalitarianism...
Vested Interest. In Lansing, Mich., after State Representative Manning Hathaway Jr. denounced parking meters because "they are extortion, they are unAmerican, they are totalitarian," the Detroit traffic court noted Hathaway had collected 38 parking tickets in nine years...
...Former Russian Monarchs merely required their subjects to keep their mouths closed, but the Soviet regime demands from everyone 'a mouth wide open in praise of the government," Karpovich declared. The reason for the difference, he explained, is that Russia today is a totalitarian state, while under the czars it was only a despotism...
...Vice President Richard M. Nixon, goodwill-building in Latin America, paid tribute to the Roman Catholic Church as "one of the major bulwarks against Communism and totalitarian ideas." In Ottawa the Rev. Dr. John A. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary and of the World Presbyterian Alliance, contradicted the Vice President. "I am compelled sorrowfully to say that the exact opposite is true," he told delegates to the North American Area Council of the Alliance. "Two decades ago the Roman Catholic Church made concordats with the totalitarian rulers of Italy and Germany . . . Today the Roman Catholic Church has a concordat...