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...third member of the Christian Democratic team, feisty former Premier Amintore Fanfani, 68, seldom makes such admissions. Fanfani's assignment is to raise the specter of fear over a Communist approach to power. At Grosseto and again at Benevento, he intimated that the party should have been outlawed: "Communism has always taken advantage of liberty to crush it once power is achieved-and it might have been better if we had not allowed them to take that road." In that way, the Christian Democrats hope to pick up votes from supporters of such smaller parties as the Liberals...
...have been compared with Alexander Dubček of Czechoslovakia. 'We all know that Communism with a human face was not permitted to exist there. Could it happen here...
...time was the mid-1930s. It was a period of global Depressions unequaled before or since, and of the rise of both Fascism and Communism in Europe and militarism in my own country. I had already spent some time as a youthful observer in Germany and the Soviet Union, where it seemed to me the myths of statism left no room for individual liberty, initiative or responsibility, and where Utopian visions of the future seemed contrived and grim...
Brazil charged that Cuba had found a new base from which to propagate Communism. Venezuela, because of a longstanding territorial claim to more than half the country, had more specific reasons to challenge Guyana. * The rightist newsweekly Venezuelan Resumen claimed the existence of three Communist military camps in Guyana, harboring more than 18,000 Cuban and -astonishingly-Chinese troops, all training revolutionaries...
Kearns puts forth no serious explanation for Johnson's actions other than the desire for action and his fear of Communism. There is no attempt to provide a bureaucratic explanation as some liberal historians have done. Far worse, she totally glosses over any political explanation for his decisions about Vietnam. By strictly adhering to a psychobiographical analysis, she denies the frame of reference provided by the Pentagon Papers, and their interpreters. A far more logical explanation for some of Johnson's moves--the desire to stave off a defeat through stalemate until the next election, put forward by Daniel Ellsberg...