ABSTRACT
Probably it is true that the very magnitude of the outrages committed by the totalitarian governments, instead of increasing the fear that such a system might one day arise in this country, has rather strengthened the assurance that it cannot happen here. When we look to Nazi Germany the gulf which separates us seems so immense that nothing that happens there can possess relevance for any possible development in this country. And the fact that the difference has steadily become greater seems to refute any suggestion that we may be moving in a similar direction. But let us not forget that fifteen years ago the possibility of such a thing happening in Germany would have appeared just as fantastic, not only to nine-tenths of the Germans themselves, but
also to the most hostile foreign observers (however wise they may now pretend to have been).
