Word: totalitarian
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Hall got an idea. He would work for McGinley, but in reality get evidence on these Fascist organizations for an eventual expose. He allied himself with an anti-totalitarian, civil rights group "The Friends of Democracy" headed by Rev. Leon M. Birkhead and Rex Stout, and from '47 to '50 travelled all over the country making contacts with former Bund members, racists, and rabble-rousers, and infiltrating the Klan and Gerald L. K. Smith's inner circle, where he had his own private office. "Smith thought I was a bright young Fascist brain-truster," he explains...
...added that we are in danger of imitating the totalitarian systems in imposing thought control upon our citizens...
...seems useless to point out that this method of purge closely parallels the system of the totalitarian nation we consider an enemy. This and other facts--about this trend destroying the very ideals we are supposedly trying to save--all that has been repeated over and over again...
...McCarran. He was protecting his own neck, and the Army's appropriations, not national security. The Fairbank case is far from unique; other citizens have suffered from the same kind of intimidation among Governmen officials. Yet this is a way of dealing with individuals much more in keeping with totalitarian ideas than with the traditions of a free society...
...McCarran. He was protecting his own neck, and the Army's appropriations, not national security. The Fairbank case is far from unique; other citizens have suffered from the same kind of intimidation among Governmen officials. Yet this is a way of dealing with individuals much more in keeping with totalitarian ideas than with the traditions of a free society...