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...least one observer suggested that Europe has given America some cause to do just that. "Europeans are amazing," said French Political Analyst Raymond Aron in a television interview. "In the last few weeks, I have been struck by how we put ourselves in the balcony of history. If a Communist Party seems on the verge of coming to power, we call it an American defeat. If the U.S. intervenes through the CIA, we then denounce American imperialism. If, for example, Portugal goes Communist, it becomes an American defeat rather than a European defeat. Obviously, Portugal is closer to Paris than...
Spartan Regimes. Several observers, including Aron, feel that the general mood of the Continent reflects the bias of many Western European intellectuals against bourgeois society and in favor of the spartan regimes of Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. In their eyes, the democratic societies of the West, despite their manifest freedoms, are associated with political corruption, economic crises, imported American tastes (by definition bad) and American values (by definition shallow). In contrast, Communist regimes are identified with social justice, economic security, cultural integrity and a bracing measure of discipline...
...Aron Lustiger Philadelphia...
...RAYMOND ARON, French historian: If you want to name a great conqueror, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. If you want a legitimate king who was at the same time a statesman and a military commander, Frederick II of Prussia...
...senior ex-varsity sharpshooter finished ahead of Donald Smith of Dayton (42,057), Butch Taylor of Jacksonville (41,318), Aron Stewart from Richmond (40,295) and Marcelous Starks of Murray State who picked up 38,162 votes...