Word: totalitarianism
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...President's order was not only an opening gun in the long-expected economic duel between the U.S. and her totalitarian enemies. It was also an important counter-espionage measure. Spying is a costly business, must be paid for in hard cash. Cutting off Axis funds, said the White House statement, will "prevent the use of the financial facilities of the United States in ways harmful to national defense...
...week's end. Labor's Non-Partisan League (John L. Lewis, chairman) groaned: "In a virtual tidal wave of reaction the Administration sponsored legislation that advances far along the totalitarian path of forced labor. . . . Unless the events of this terrible week can be reversed, it is clear that American democracy will soon become just another museum piece to be set on a shelf beside the former democracies of the Old World...
...told Dr. Douglas Armour Thorn of Boston that in the U.S. "idle young people . . . exhaust nervous energies in the Boy Scouts and Y.M.C.A.," Dr. Thorn replied cryptically: "The American people have succumbed to a fatuous dependence on the cheerleader. . . . Our leaders lack the vision given to leaders in the totalitarian states which enables them to appreciate the vast magnitude of these [psychiatric] problems...
...Totalitarian World was organizing. The German press scoffed at reports, originating in the U.S. press, that Adolf Hitler was about to announce a Federation of European States under German leadership. Such a federation was already virtually a fact, except for such nervous little islands of democracy as Sweden, Finland, Switzerland (which is useful to the Germans as a clearinghouse for foreign exchange). France was practically in the war against Great Britain (see p. 21). Portugal was strengthening the defenses of its Atlantic islands, and Lisbon was a nest of Nazi schemers working to have those defenses used against the Democratic...
...That totalitarian Russia would become an active partner of totalitarian Germany seemed more likely than ever last week. What shady dickerings went on between Reichsführer Hitler and newly designated Premier Stalin were secrets known only to the Kremlin and the Wilhelmstrasse, but rumors from Ankara of German troop concentrations in Rumania lent credence to a report by Correspondent John T. Whitaker that Hitler was forcing Stalin's hand. Possibly Joseph Stalin was waiting to see whether Britain could hold Suez before making a deal with Hitler in the Middle East, but it was disquieting news...