Word: totalitarianism
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That American energy developed by the war may result in a new social system will be discussed under the direction of George Clay '43 by the committee on Domestic Problems. Directed by Paul C. Sheeline '43, the committee on Ideological Problems will seek ways to persuade the peoples of totalitarian countries to cooperate in a democratic...
...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
...result of the supposed wreck is an almost universal claustrophobia, a feeling that everybody is trapped by the debris, and that the ways out are worse than the fact of being trapped. The alternative posed by Author Lerner, for example, is totalitarian socialism as an escape from totalitarian fascism. Author Chamberlin, on the other hand, deems it wiser simply to lie low, meanwhile poking in the wreck age, in the hopeless hope that some clue will somehow lead to some other escape...
...disappearance of generally recognized moral values," says Chamberlin, "there has been a tremendous increase in state sponsored inhumanity . . . imprisonment and execution without trial, torture of political dissidents, holding of relatives as hostages, outlawry of whole classes and races." Possibly more sinister is the silence with which the totalitarian Governments have been able to blanket their total atrocities...
...this conclusion are: 1. the failure of Hitler to invade England over 22 miles of water, 2. the failure of the large and idle British army to make an effective rearguard action with an army of 10,000,000 as its ally, 3. the failure of the one totalitarian force in the world with its own forts and inside lines to prevent huge German victories...