Word: totalitarian
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...President of Costa Rica has been a fascist, nor could any Chief Executive of my country ever sympathize with the totalitarian nations, because every one of Costa Rica's statesmen is educated in the school of traditional Costa Rican democracy...
...great citizen-soldier who, in a totalitarian war, had assembled and directed an army without deviating an inch in the direction of totalitarian practices, had become a leader and spokesman of the drive for a nontotalitarian peace...
...weapon. The Argentines were now ready to spend from $1 to $1½ billion to bring their war-worn economy up to date, and make it more self-sufficient. Peró wants machine tools, trucks, oilfield equipment, and engineering savvy to advance Argentina in the familiar pattern of totalitarian autarkic...
Spain's totalitarian party, the Falange, of which Franco is Caudillo (leader), is another prop. After seven years, it has a strong influence over Spanish youth and a stranglehold on the nation's totally regimented, venally exploited economy. The Falange's mass base is weak (5% to 10% of the population), but most big landowners and businessmen, who live in dread of a mass uprising, give it their allegiance...
Franco's Weakness. The Generalissimo's greatest weakness is the state of his nation. Under his totalitarian order, Spain's old and decadent worlds of wealth and want are spinning ever farther apart. Life in Madrid is a pattern in extremes. The capital has Europe's most elegant and epicurean restaurants; among the best is the one operated by the famed German restaurateur Otto Horcher, who used to serve Nazi bigwigs in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Store windows on the Gran Via display nylons, furs, silks, satins, perfumes...