Word: totalitarian
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...Woollcott scrawled I AM SICK at a radio forum, and was carried out to die of a cerebral hemorrhage, his friends and enemies have tried to explain what manner of man he was. Some may agree with Critic Edmund Wilson's verdict: "In the days of totalitarian states and commercial standardization, he did not hesitate to assert himself as a single, unique human being." Others may ponder Woollcott's raging scream, made when a tactless lecture-chairman referred to his youthful success in female roles: "Look at me, boys and girls; half god, half woman...
This understanding did not deter him from sanctifying the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of North China in 1937, the blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The totalitarian forces which had shaped his state shaped his place in it. The westernized elder statesmen and their successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki...
Churchill also wagged a warning finger at strong-arm politics in Europe: "There would be little use in punishing the Hitlerites ... if totalitarian or police governments were to take the place of the German invaders...
...however," stressed Sorokin, "a partisan of totalitarian economy. I am merely 'a conservative Christian anarchist'; I do not like any government." With this declaration, Harvard's stormy sociologist clarified his position in the controversy that, is currently raging over Friedrich A. Hayek's new book "The Road to Serfdom...
...marine without Government subsidy. The cost of subsidizing a fleet of even 20,000,000 tons would be upwards of $200,000,000 a year, would put the U.S. hip-deep in the shipping business. Such commercial entanglements, said Douglas, lead governments to nationalism and "its natural offspring the totalitarian state." Such a tremendous involvement in shipping would inevitably lead the U.S. into competition with other countries. After that-"war . . . becomes first a threat and finally a devastating fact...