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Finally, and I don't really know if this is relevant, whereas I can't say I like Communism, I am a very enthusiastic believer in detente, and in accepting the Communist countries on their own evaluation of themselves, that is as equals. But I am not sure that most political activists these days know that much about politics--at least European politics...
...embittered by the rush toward decolonization that having twice tried but failed to gain for himself stronger powers, he is now said to be on the verge of resigning. He is certain that the guerrilla movements that are now taking control in the territories will lead them toward Communism...
...Seeds of Tomorrow, Harvest on the Don) is strikingly inferior to The Quiet Don, which was completed in 1940. It became the best-selling Soviet novel in the U.S.S.R. (6 million copies translated into 40 different Soviet languages), and Soviet textbooks extol it as the supreme literary accomplishment of Communism. The book continues to be widely read in Soviet schools...
...tenets, in order of the degree of spread, are: 1) conviction that people have become too selfish and self-centered, putting their own interests ahead of their families and the country, 2) strong support for reinstituting the death penalty, 3) commitment to organized religion, and 4) belief that American Communism represents a great danger to the country...
...very end, Nixon defied analysis. The reason columnists, like auto manufacturers, almost annually proclaimed the emergence of "a new Nixon" lay partly in his remarkable opportunism. Few politicians have ever preached the verities of work ethic, law and order, anti-Communism and the rest with such fervor while so thoroughly readjusting their private dogmas to deal with events. Like an Elmer Gantry intransigent in the pulpit, Nixon knew all about sin and situational ethics in the political streets. The ideological flexibility that allowed him to embrace China and Russia, a guaranteed annual income, and wage and price controls, always troubled...