Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brutal Friendship, by F. W. Deakin. In a scrupulously documented study, Historian Deakin shows how unacknowledged friction between Hitler and Mussolini poisoned the relations and disrupted the war efforts of their two countries...
Hungarian intellectuals earned their meager allowance the hard way. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, after betraying his country to the Kremlin during the uprising, for four years tried to whip the country into submission by brutal use of police terror. But Kadar eventually learned that he could not force the sullen Hungarians to cooperate. With his civil service in tatters and economy a shambles, he gradually relaxed controls, even began naming non-Communist experts to key industrial jobs. "He who is not against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last...
...BRUTAL FRIENDSHIP (896 pp.)-F. W. Deakin-Harper...
Merdeka. Abdul Rahman was so busy politicking that he had taken little military interest in the brutal, bloody guerrilla war that 350,000 British and Malayan troops and home guardsmen were waging against Communist insurgents in Malaya's tangled jungles. But after his 1955 election landslide, the Tunku grew afraid that the British might use the emergency to delay independence, arranged to meet the Communist rebel chieftains in northern Malaya to see if some sort of settlement could be worked out. "My ideas about Communism were determined by that meeting," says the Tunku. "I became convinced that once...
...could hardly follow McNaughton's advice; somehow he had to explain away his Cuba crisis statement that the Government has "the inherent right, if necessary, to lie to save itself." But in three hours of testimony, Sylvester seemed to satisfy his congressional inquisitors that his was simply "a brutal answer to a rather brutal question" at a "freewheeling" dinner held by the journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Next, he was asked to defend himself against the now familiar suggestion that he ought to resign from the Defense Department on the ground that he has "damaged his usefulness...