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Even as the envelopes piled up. so did the furor over the Kennedy-backed deal. Richard Nixon denounced the trade-which, he warned, could be completed only "at the cost of increasing the power of the tyrant." Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams introduced a bill that would make the proposed swap a federal offense, punishable by $5,000 fine, three years in prison. Wrote an indignant reader of the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "I have been sick to my stomach with shame...
...embraced charlatans like Count Cagliostro, who had a yellow pill that would keep one permanently young, à la Dorian Gray. The age prattled of liberty, but the man the intellectual French Encyclopedists hailed as a philosopher king, Frederick the Great, was described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife." The age worshiped good sense, yet "the High Priest of Reason," Dr. Johnson, would scrape his knuckles with a penknife till they were raw, and insisted on touching every post...
...same plane with the top men in the SS, acidulous Heinrich Himmler and blond, willowy Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, and was given the task of getting rid of the Austrian Jews but keeping their possessions. In dealing with Jewish leaders, Eichmann delighted in playing the role of unpredictable tyrant. One day, he would be soft-spoken and agreeable, even delaying a transport of Jews so that it would not start on Yom Kippur; the next, he would scream hysterically and emphasize his points by slamming the desk with his swagger stick. When war began, Eichmann was head...
...Communism, which is the end of democracy." And he added an outspoken warning about Castro's Cuba: "Let us keep in mind the experience of a sister nation that, oppressed by tyranny, revolted and raised the flag of justice. But after victory, the people wound up exchanging one tyrant for another...
...bound personally to Trujillo. But others in the middle echelons are increasingly worried about what happens to them if the old man goes, now are said to listen thoughtfully to anti-Trujillo talk. Helping their speculations along are two opposition hopes. One is that an attempt to assassinate the tyrant will succeed. In the past year, two attempts have been made: two months ago an escort car in his motorcade through the countryside was shot up and a bodyguard wounded; earlier, three army officers tried and failed to plant a bomb in his car. The other opposition hope is that...