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They are not allowed to call themselves Fascists, to praise Mussolini in their propaganda, or to sing the old anthem, Giovinezza, at their rallies. But 26 years after Il Duce was killed and strung up by his heels in public disgrace, the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement (M.S.I.) has built a membership of 400,000 and is becoming a force to be reckoned with. As Italy plunges deeper and deeper into a turmoil of strikes and riots, many inspired by ultra-leftist forces, increasing numbers of people look to the party as a good place to cast their protest votes...
...Worry. Next week, when 7,000,000 Italians go to the polls in local elections in Rome, Genoa, Sicily and other areas throughout the country, the M.S.I, is expected to be the beneficiary of a backlash vote in response to the rash of recent disorders. Not that the neo-Fascists are about to take over city hall-anywhere. Their hopes lie rather in denying a majority to the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners, forcing the party instead to look to the right to form coalitions. The Christian Democrats insist that they will never team up with the M.S.I...
Niebuhr's theology was often called an American version of Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy, but Niebuhr was very much an American original. He himself criticized Barth for being too controlled by the Bible and so far above the social tumult that he fostered "eschatological irresponsibility." For the past four decades, Niebuhr has been preeminent in his field, the greatest Protestant theologian born in America since Jonathan Edwards. Last week Niebuhr died at 78 in Stockbridge, Mass., the same town where Edwards once lived in exile-banished for his too-demanding theology. The funeral was held...
...fact, many of the proposals that White House officials have so casually referred to as neo-isolationist no more deserve that description than does the Nixon Doctrine. First enunciated by the President at Guam in July 1969, it was a major effort to rethink U.S. world policy and lower the American profile abroad. Quite rightly, Historian Manfred Jonas argues that applying the term isolationist to contemporary Senators tends to confuse rather than illuminate their stance. "They earnestly believe that there are limits to America's power," he writes in Isolationism in America, "and that to overstep these limits means...
Isolationism carried into the 20th century is essentially a flight from reality. To label the critics and reappraisers of U.S. foreign policy neo-isolationists is equally escapist. Few things threaten U.S. power more seriously than excessive or misguided intervention; the Viet Nam War has done more than any other factor in recent years to reduce U.S. global influence. Seeking to rationalize U.S. commitments abroad is the very opposite of isolationism, because only such rationalization can restore and maintain the U.S. position in the world...