Word: totalitarian
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...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...
...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...
While State's lawyers stewed, one indignant yelp arose from an area where the shoe might pinch. In wrathful comment on a New York Times story which raised the question of Argentina's "totalitarian" President Perón, Buenos Aires' die-hard Peronista daily La Epoca bellowed: "Such newspapers should not have the right to print, even on toilet paper, such libelous information [against] . . . a nation which is leading the world in the art of liberating people from Communist infection...
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...
...member of the Women's Democratic Organization in Wiesladen; the other, Ursula Adam, was the first president of the League of Women Citizens of Berlin. They are barred from the country under the McCarran Bill section which prohibits admittance to people who have ever been affiliated with a totalitarian organization...