Word: totalitarian
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...totalitarian countries regard democracies as effete and doomed, unable to compete with them efficiently, and they are giving good indication in Europe that they are right. We surely can meet their challenge in efficiently producing the machinery of war, but so far there seems to be little evidence that a democracy can provide the personnel for an adequate army. If conscription is not adopted before the enemy is ready to attack, the "last great democracy" will surely disappear from this earth...
That smart and slippery politician, King Carol II of Rumania, last week lost no time in coming to terms with continental Europe's new master. No sooner had France asked for peace than Carol, in a sweeping decree, made Rumania a totalitarian State. A single new Party of the Nation was established and the Nazi Iron Guard and anti-Semitic "National Generation of 1922" invited to join. The last imprisoned members of the Iron Guard were set free and an announcement said that "officials responsible for killing Iron Guardists in recent years" will be punished. This obviously...
...blunt," said he, "If Hitler gets our fleet, or destroys it, the whole foundation on which the security of both our countries has rested for 120 years will have disappeared. . . . Moreover, if Hitler beats us, the totalitarian powers will possess airplane building facilities, naval and shipbuilding dockyards and industrial resources all over Europe ... which will enable them vastly to outbuild your own defensive preparations. . . . Many people in the U. S. believe that somehow or other, even if Great Britain is invaded and over run, the British Navy will cross the Atlantic and still be available, through Canada or otherwise...
This week a telling document was added to the tragic literature of hindsight. In a dissection of Allied war economics ("Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat"), FORTUNE for July tots up the assets and liabilities of Britain and France and their empires, points up their strength and weakness for totalitarian war. Written before the final collapse of France, it helps explain why that collapse occurred...
...France), against Britain's 10%. When the war began Britain was still taking 30% of her machine-tool imports from Germany. British buying in the U. S. (producer of half the world's steel) could overcome this discrepancy if there were time. But halfhearted Allied approximations of totalitarian economic control, and futile attempts to preserve empire trading customs for a post-war world, used up time when the Allies had it. Now time works for the Nazis...