Word: totalitarian
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Said Harvard's Professor Ralph Barton Perry: "It is your responsibility in this grave hour to see to it that American boys and girls ... are ... incorrigibly democratic. . . . The problem for a democracy is how to be total without being totalitarian...
...first seven days were days of mystery. Citizens of the outside world could only ponder the oddities of totalitarian propaganda; look at German pictures of happy byplay in captured villages; muse on Russian geography-Dvinsk here, Pinsk there, Minsk in between; and take their pick between diametric optimism...
...essay: "If my country needs a statesman, I will be the statesman." He has been businessman, diplomat, foreign minister; always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what he is and hopes to make of himself...
...shrewd to be carried away by jingoistic phrases, even his own; too practical to guide Japan as fast on her New Order as her Army clique may wish to lead her. A totalitarian, he lacks Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto's aggressive and hare-brained Fascism. And it may be that, unless he can give the Army its pound of flesh, he will find himself out of the office he treasures, replaced by someone less brilliant, less cautious, "more vigorous." For with Mr. Matsuoka in the Foreign Office, Japan has moved in the East only when events in the West were...
...Cabinet advisory councilor in Prince Fumimaro Konoye's first Premiership. In March 1939 he again made one of his sudden resignations en route to better things, and reappeared in July 1940 as Foreign Minister. As an ardent expansionist and strong supporter of the Prince's plan for totalitarian one-party rule, he was Prince Konoye's choice...