Word: dictatorship
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...million pounds of butter in storage of the Community Credit Corporation; fear of our power, both military and economic--these are the things which feed the fire of hate for us all over the world, and which make bearable to half the world the immeasurable oppression of totalitarian dictatorship; for, what won't we bear while we struggle? Jealousy and fear, these are the causes of aggression, and these we must fight as if we are to end aggression...
...obeying an unpleasant command, ECA announced that it would begin "immediately" to channel to Spanish industries and companies the $62.5 million in ECA funds set aside for Spain by the 81st Congress. Able no longer to ignore the will of Congress, despite its own contempt for the Franco dictatorship, the Administration did its best to make it look as unlike a Marshall Plan project as possible. ECA would send no mission to Madrid, would leave the handling of the money to the Export-Import Bank...
...internal affairs be settled internally. Every peaceful country is a potential ally against an aggressor nation, and we need every ally we can find, especially one with a large standing army occupying the last bulwark of continental Western Europe. Indeed, we are giving aid to Tito's Communist dictatorship: and how can the CRIMSON editors reconcile their advocacy of alliance with Tito's Yugoslavia with their hostility toward Franco's Spain? Herbert Barry...
Yugoslavia, a dictatorship as absolute as Stalinist Russia or Franco Spain, needs economic help badly. All summer the sun has baked its rich black earth uninterruptedly to produce the worst famine in generations. Many peasants have not even bothered to harvest their dismal crops despite compulsory delivery quotas ordered by the government. They have slaughtered livestock for want of feed...
Tito's plea for help deserves not only favorable consideration but action as soon as possible in the form of sending either funds to buy food or the foodstuffs themselves. Although Titoist Yugoslavia is a Communist dictatorship of the most unsavory sort, Yugoslavia is also a diplomatic oddity well worth preserving. She is a Communist nation that has escaped the Russian orbit. As such she may sway other Communist nations, such as China, to the view that there is a third relationship with Western nations besides clearcut alliance or clearcut opposition...