Word: totalitarian
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...French Assembly proved again its willful capacity for chaos, French justice also came in for well-deserved attack. "What is wrong with our justice?" demanded France Dimanche. "Henceforward," added Paris' Paris-Presse, "it is hard to see how we can have the nerve to give lessons to totalitarian police...
Dedijer failed to appreciate what his hero, Marshal Tito, and the harder Communist heads understood instinctively, that a totalitarian regime can relax only in limited and selective ways, or invite its own downfall...
...program of technical assistance and world development would certainly be more effective than military pacts. For efforts to stop Communism in Asia by rifles or H-bombs overlook the pride, nationalism, and hunger of most free Asians. Local landlords are much more hated by landless peasants than are distant totalitarian tyrants; bread and rice taste better than gunpowder. Present Soviet technical assistance also makes an expanded U.S. program necessary. The Soviet Union is giving China more than seven times the amount of money the U.S. now devotes to India, and free Asia looks with longing eyes at the rapid industrialization...
...member of the Church of the Brethren.) The order "creates a terrifying precedent," complained the archdiocese's official Catholic Review. "An invitation to practice fraud and deceit," charged an anonymous group of Catholic lawyers. Theologian Francis J. Connell of the Catholic University of America denounced the order as "totalitarian, un-American and irreligious." Citing Pius XI ("Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects . . . where no crime has taken place"), Connell argued that the judge's decision was "opposed to the principle that God is the supreme and direct Lord of every human being...
...late George Orwell's powerful fantasy-novel of the totalitarian state, 1984, already a U.S. television success (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953), will be filmed next year in Germany by Britain's Rathvon Overseas, Ltd. The producer: Lothar (Martin Luther) Wolff, who will make 1984 in both German and English. Hollywood's Cornel Wilde may star...