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Small businessmen, farmers and white-collar workers, clinging to status pretensions that threatened to evaporate in the burning sun of an egalitarian revolution, enlisted in Hitler's and Mussolini's armies, wielding banners inscribed 'honor and duty,' thrusting aside the old conservative classes in their eagerness to dismember the Left...
...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 and assassinations directed against the Left for which the fascists claimed credit...
...Hitler was right about the Jews, because the Israelis are not working in the interests of the people of the world, and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany." (In a cable to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, September 1972.) "Some Asians in Uganda have been painting themselves black with shoe polish. Asians are our brothers and sisters. If anyone is found painting himself with black polish, disciplinary action will be taken against him." (In a speech in Brazzaville, August 1973.) "I am told that venereal disease is very high with...
...pampas town of Lobos, Perón never longed to become a farmer like his father. At an early age, he chose a military career. As a military observer in Europe in the late '30s and early '40s, he became spellbound by both Hitler and Mussolini. After meeting Hitler, Perón wrote: "As in Germany, our future will be an inflexible dictatorship." When il Duce died, he said: "Mussolini was the greatest man of our century...
Most of them would not have placed in a baby contest, but there they were, looking surprisingly like their grown-up selves. From Baby Adolf Hitler to Altar Boy Richard Daley, the passel of snapshots and more formal portraits had been assembled somewhat irreverently in a paperback album, As They Were, by Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg. Little Walter Cronkite sported short pants and big ears; Sammy Davis Jr. at three looked like a refugee from Our Gang; Marlene Dietrich was demurely Victorian, with a tiny heart-shaped locket and crossed ankles. As a baby, Baby Dr. Benjamin Spock wore...