Word: totalitarianization
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...letter of October 4th to the former Republican Presidential candidate, President Conant approved embargo repeal and pleaded for an unemotional approach. He said of the Allies, "I believe if these countries are defeated by a totalitarian power, the hope of free institutions as a basis of modern civilization will be jeopardized...
These points are merely minor steps in Buell's main thesis, to which he marshals a mass of evidence: that in the modern world U. S. economy cannot be self-sufficient, nor in a totalitarian world can it be anything but totalitarian; that therefore the U. S. can afford neither a long European war nor the defeat of the democracies...
...world settlement outlined by Buell rests on an acute criticism of Clarence Streit's Union Now (a proposal for a federation of democracies). He argues that practical provision must be made for Latin America and the totalitarian States, in a new Association of Nations with regional departments such as the Pan-American Union, the British Commonwealth of Nations, a European Federation, a Pacific Conference, the U. S. S. R. What distinguishes Mr. Buell's intricate program is a realistic sense of quid pro quo: e.g., a Danubian Union would need guarantees from Britain; to give them Britain would...
...hold the opinion that we can isolate ourselves from world events, crawl into our economic and political cyclone cellar, draw in the trap door after us, and thus preserve the essential elements of the American experiment. ... To retreat to the cyclone cellar here means, ultimately, to establish a totalitarian state at home...
...democratic Great Britain's handicaps in war with totalitarian Germany is Britain's traditional democratic tolerance. She tolerates pacifists, conscientious objectors, Communists; also those liberal-minded gentlemen who see the war, not primarily as a desperate crisis demanding united will-to-win, but rather as an opportunity for social reform. Last week a group of liberals who put the war before social reform struck back at their Communist critics...