Word: chiles
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...Grass commented. Grass, whose most recent work deals with the 1969 German elections, repeatedly questioned the political health of the United States and Western Europe. "How could the United States start a war in Vietnam and allow the things that went on there?" he asked. The recent coup in Chile demonstrates how far fascism has gone, Grass stated. "It is late," he said, referring to the urgency of political involvement by the left...
Such is the awesome tragedy of revolution, a tragedy just re-enacted in Chile, a tragedy that has always posed a wretched dilemma for the Left. Socialists, believing that men and women are products of their social circumstance, can hardly pin any ultimate blame on those who stand athwart the path of revolution. And yet the imperatives of a situation quite often seem to dictate that those people who impede progress be removed, at times forceably and violently removed...
...Left dilemma was posed anew by the military takeover in Chile. As the dictatorship fastens its hold on the country, as the generals with the sunglasses issue orders for more executions, the debate that has divided the Chilean Left in recent years will flare up once again on a world scale, just as it has so many times before in this century...
...hard to recover after the swirling storm of revolution. The Soviet Union emerged from its upheaval as a distorted caricature of socialist ideals. Its present Czar, Leonid Brezhnev, shakes hands with Richard Nixon, abandons North Vietnam to American terror-bombing, and refuses to send aid to Chile after the United States cuts off its support...
...Chile in the past few years has re-enacted the scenario of polarization. The old conservative ruling class was rapidly joined in its opposition to the Allende government by a growing fascist movement, which, centered in the Patria Y Libertad (Fatherland and Liberty) movement, drew increasing support from the middle classes. Patria Y Libertad was formed only after Allende's 1970 election, but the group rapidly gained strength, attracting financial support, as had Hitler and Mussolini, from members of the old conservative landed and industrial classes. The last few months of the socialist government were punctuated with terror bombings...