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This session had been called, the Tokyo radio explained, to approve Premier Hideki Tojo's plans for "total national mobilization" and "drastic increase in fighting strength." In a totalitarian nation organized to the last rice grain and the newest village baby, what could that mean...
...Catholic press . . . put Communist atheism and Hitler's positive Christianity on the same level. . . . The encyclical of Pope Pius XI, Mit brennender Sorge, [issued in March 1937] . . . not only condemned the totalitarian conception of the state but also the principles of National Socialism, particularly on blood and race. . . . The attitude of the Papacy . . . contributed very sensibly to the development of the war psychosis. . . . Numerous militant Catholics in France joined the warmonger's clique. This barking chorus of sulky dogs was made complete when Cardinal Verdier [in December 1937] declared that Christian doctrine and democratic principles were fundamentally identical...
...free economy the universal inducement is money. Command can be issued only in a totalitarian state. Hence, unless the world is to drive itself through painful stages into totalitarianism, it must learn how to make money fill its full role as a stimulant to labor...
...Totalitarian Propaganda? But the most complete exposition of the movie's errors and the most withering critique of its objectives came from aging Philosopher John Dewey, a socialist exponent of Yankee pragmatism. Together with Author Suzanne La Follette (with whom he had investigated the Moscow purge trials) he condemned Mission to Moscow in a 2,000-word letter to the New York Times...
Said able Critics Dewey and La Follette: "Mission to Moscow is the first instance in our country of totalitarian propaganda for mass consumption...