Word: totalitarian
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...fortress of democracy. . . . Power is a heady wine. Few human brains can resist it, and certainly there has been no evidence, or even desire of resistance in the gentleman who seeks it now. He has gathered unto himself more power than any ruler on earth has, save in the totalitarian governments...
Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Führer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Führer Quisling saw a large expanse of territory upon which no dictator had planted his flag-the South Pole...
...many this unity was a source of spiritual power," he said. "Today, by contrast, we admittedly look in vain for cultural unity, except in totalitarian lands...
...follows: "to support immediate, effective and equitable measures for defense...to assist in the creation of a sound national unity founded on the widespread conviction that the hope of perfecting American life lies in freedom from external pressure...to advocate such aid to countries now at war with the totalitarian powers as is approved by sound military opinion in the interests of American defense...
...rest of the states have various types of totalitarian political regime, which vary greatly in the extent to which they have departed from the principles of democracy. Professor Haring stated...