Word: totalitarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, threw down the gauntlet to the totalitarian states today in one of the most outspoken denunciations of the Fascist states yet made by anyone in high Faculty circles...
Emphasizing that he made his stand entirely in his individual capacity and not in connection with a university policy, Bridgman bombarded the totalitarian states with his " 'Manifesto' by a Physicist" in which he stated that he has decided to close his laboratory to visits from citizens of Fascist governments...
...closing the doors of his noted laboratories to visitors from the totalitarian states Bridgman stated, "The totalitarian states do not recognize that the free cultivation of scientific knowledge for its own sake is a worthy end of human endeavor, but have commandeered the scientific activities of their citizens to serve their own purposes...
Wild attempted in his talk to appraise the fundamentals of democracy which makes it different from the totalitarian states, and after finding the obvious definitions of majority rule and protected minority rights inadequate, reached three conclusions. First be listed the supremacy of reason ever brute force, second the importance of the individual mind as opposed to the mass mind, third the recognition of a code of reasoned justices...
Neither naval nor military authorities in the U. S. believe Europe's totalitarian toughies would risk transatlantic invasion. But it is the Navy's job to remind them of the risk. According to latest reports published by the U. S. Navy Department (November 1938), a combined Italo-German fleet would outnumber the U. S. only in destroyers and submarines...