Word: totalitarianization
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...shot-down R.A.F. pilot I spent four years and 359 days in Germany reflecting on the virtues of appeasement of totalitarian governments and cannot but be dismayed at the ostrich-rump aspect presented by so many British leaders today. Your Senator Knowland seems to me to be your most intelligent and sensible statesman, and it is ironical that he is today doing his best to apprise the free world of its dangers from the world-Communism concept in precisely the same way as Churchill warned Britain [in 1938-39] of Nazi strength and aims . . . Peaceful coexistence is a dangerous delusion...
...nine days before the board, Melish insisted that Christianity and Communism are striving for the same social reforms, "each according to its own lights and philosophy." He added that the American Communist Party is using "democratic, constitutional processes." Asked whether Russia is totalitarian or a dictatorship, Melish snorted: "Emotional labels...
Some of John's old friends still could not believe it. "He is absolutely a man of Western ideas." said a Bonn diplomat. "He was against all totalitarian systems, Nazi and Communist," said a Berlin colleague. But whether he had sold out, defected, or had been lured across, the ugly fact was that, voluntarily or involuntarily, Otto John could give the Communists more valuable information than anyone since Klaus Fuchs...
...soldiers ever murder their prisoners, only the Franco side ever lies. Frequently, Author Bowers sounds more like a pamphleteer than a competent historian, e.g., "It is ironical that the diplomatic representative of every nation soon to be trodden neath the iron heel of Hitler was openly smiling on the totalitarian crusade against democracy in Spain." Bowers writes much better when he is telling of his prewar rambles around the Spain he loved so well: Holy Week in Seville, wine-tasting in Jerez de la Frontera, a fiesta in Toledo, the running of the bulls in the streets of Pamplona...
According to Moskoff the major problem of the investigators is the kind of subversive being" sought and dismissed: "It is plain that any person who actively supports a totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership... in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the KuKlux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action...