… is from page 18 of Stephen Kresge’s “Introduction” to the 1994 volume – edited by Kresge and Leif Wenar – Hayek on Hayek:
As time went on, the fact that Britain and the United States did not become totalitarian was cited to discredit Hayek’s warning [in The Road to Serfdom]. His critics did not realize how the experience of the war had inured people to the loss of freedom; their argument seemed to be that as long as planning took place outside forced-labor camps there was no danger.
