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...peacetime basis. Were efficiency the highest criterion of government there would be little reason for Americans to withhold judgment on the Nanking government. It does appear to be the strongest single force in China. But Professor Pound forgets, and this is the same omission that permitted praise of early Fascist Italy by some "for making the trains run on time," that the United States is interested in China not as a smoothly-running machine but as a two-party, democratic republic. If the Nanking government, as it stands, contains the answer to Chinese difficulties, Washington might have taken advantage...
...Ivanissevich was smiling and the President was smiling, and they were both saying what fine countries the other represented. It was hard to remember that only a few months ago the State Department was spreading the idea that Argentina's President Juan Peron was nothing but a fascist jerk...
...struggle between capitalist countries, like the U.S. and Britain, against the Soviet Union is intensifying under new, postwar conditions. "The fact that the Soviet Union and the highly developed capitalist countries fought in the same camp against the fascist aggressors did not signify that the struggle between the two systems had slowed down and stopped; it did not even signify the beginning of the end of this struggle...
More & more people were drifting into banditry and into U Aung San's nationalist, loud, leftist Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Last week, Aung San paraded through Rangoon in a jeep, waving a red flag, while thousands of ragged Burmans shouted: "Down with the Government!" Few Burmans really wanted violence, but a British officer estimated that there were enough weapons hidden in the country for a "long and bloody struggle." The crucial factor would be the size of next November's rice crop. Now Burmans chanted an old verse with new, ominous meaning...
Elite Assemblymen denounced the movement as fascist. The military junta met it with armored cars and mounted machine guns. The night before the election, voodoo drums beat feverishly in the lower town, and there were rifle shots. The Garde killed two, wounded...