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...independence, and not its willingness to follow a democratic way of life, was to be Acheson's touchstone of American aid, then some radical changes in U.S. thinking were called for. Was the U.S. ready to follow him? By Acheson's definition, presumably Franco's Spanish dictatorship was entitled to help. And how about Communist Tito? No longer was the State Department talking about winning him over to the Western orbit. In fact, the State Department was now saying that Tito is more valuable to the U.S. -and more deserving of help-as a Communist than...
Among the courses regularly offered to Summer School students will be courses on the dictatorship and politics of the Soviet Union, as well as courses on the United States in World Politics and a special course on the Politics of the Near East...
...first months of Fascism, he was slow to realize what Mussolini stood for. But when dictatorship established itself, he turned his back on Rome. In Naples, he edited a scholarly anti-Fascist magazine called La Critica, defied the government with his book History as the Story of Liberty. Once a band of young Black Shirts threatened to storm his home, fled when confronted by Signora Croce. Beyond that, the Fascists never dared to molest the Croces. "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear," Mussolini once remarked-"Croce. And I fear him because I do not understand...
...Which Dictatorship Was Worse? One wreck of a man slowly unfolded a story of seven years' suffering under two dictatorships. The Nazis had thrown him into Sachsenhausen in 1943 for listening to foreign broadcasts. Released in 1945, he headed for home in Schleswig-Holstein. Somewhere along the road, the Russians seized him again, sent him back to Sachsenhausen. In nine years of marriage, he had lived with his wife for only eight months. "God only knows if I'll find her," he said, "or what I'll find...
...Blair), 46, Bengal-born British novelist, critic, political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) ; of tuberculosis; in London. A product of Eton, Orwell became a non-Communist leftist, fought for the Republicans in Spain. He was an independent radical who disliked party labels and instinctively fought all forms of dictatorship. His Animal Farm was a truly aimed, destructive satire on Stalin's Russia. His last book, bestselling Nineteen Eighty-Four, gave a chillingly ugly blueprint of a future slave state...