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...Democratic improprieties do not justify Republican misdeeds (" Tu quoque is the weakest of all arguments"), Buchanan took every opportunity to cite political tactics by Democrats that he considered worse than anything Republicans had done. What could be worse, he suggested, than George McGovern's comparing Nixon with Adolf Hitler and U.S. war policy in Southeast Asia with Hitler's extermination of Jews.* But what kind of political activity did he advocate? "Anything that was not considered immoral, unethical, illegal-or unprecedented in previous Democratic campaigns," Buchanan replied to sympathetic caucus-room laughter...
...contrary, Mr. Swanson continues to espouse the philosophy of collectivism with impressive consistency. I must therefore await his next editorial, which will, no doubt, endorse Stalin's extermination of the kulaks or Hitler's immolation of six million Jews. Robert Campbell...
Although smaller in land area than Cuba, East Germany now produces more than Hitler's mighty prewar Reich. Throughout the '60s, one of the chief tasks of Erich Honecker, now East Germany's No. 1 man (see box), was to boost production to ever greater heights...
...westernmost province, he was delivering party newspapers for his coal-miner father by the time he was eight. At 14, he was a member of the Young Communist League; four years later he took his first trip to Moscow to attend the Communist Youth International School. In 1933, after Hitler outlawed Germany's Communist Party, he became an underground organizer, under the name Herbert Jung. In 1935 he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to ten years in prison; he spent much of it in solitary confinement...
...from his statements on the socialist soapbox, and yet justifies his views aesthetically. He insists very stubbornly on the distinction, saying that he would "never write a poem about the Social Democratic Party," but finds no contradiction in claiming that a book like The Tin Drum helps explain why Hitler came to power. The line between explanation and instruction is very fine and discovering where the two meet is likely to reveal the real focus of Grass's work, which is perhaps more than anything a kind of explanation to himself...