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d. to its ' tl appetite 1 r pow< uul acknowledges nothing as save in S < as it can he used to feed thai appetite. It is jlistin ts own eves, and in those of it> followers, in s > far as Mich < j vv< is *ti II) hieved at the exj i nse of rival states, thus ( mfirmtlu sens< its own natural I racial) superiority. It seeks no othei ifi >n. It is n this third point that the Soviet state differs signifi tnth

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i tiermanv, [apan, and Italv. The coal it sets itself has been the i >nomic reorganization oi its own country. And this, told is I have its climax in the bringing in oi a system oi pro-

n which the dictatorial stale will no longer he required. We max smile at the optimism of those who suppose following the M \ian model that when the '"dictatorship oi the proletariat" has

its 1 neficent work the dictatorial state will "wither away," leav*

>m a n d h r o t h e r h love in its place. Men o\o not normally h< - from t h o r n s and unlimited political power has not usually thu self-effacing, IWn the fact remains that the Soviet governnt h. in the m a i n used its power to bring about the internal retution oi its own country and that it has not in the main used I wer .i- i threat to the safety oi others save where, and somewith 'Oo\ reason, it felt its own boundaries to he threatened. It fights t< i\ a defensive war. and it has shown in waging it a level f internal c hesion and political morale which we rightly admire. < T h e totalitarianism oi which Hitler and Mussolini are the spokes n. on the «'ther hand, has national prestige and dominance, at the

xpense of others labelled inferior and proved to he so to the extent tv

] , u h jt is p JSible to intimidate or enslave them, as its explicit goal

1 its measure oi justification. All that the efficient creation and use

jlV tools of violence could give a nation shaken and demoral ed t l e f, it m war and h\ economic insecurity, Hitler has given his

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The) have surrendered much, as citizens and as men. to the

pi.wrr that rules their lives, but the\ have had their reward. Half has h e m looted oi all that organized violence can snatch Clj | uropt ,ni w iker peoples, wounded national pride has been assuaged in a

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<•• victories the like oi which histon has rarcl\ recorded, and