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Nation's Spearhead. The philosophy behind the S.A.O. is a muddle of authoritarian, imperialist and populist ideas. S.A.O. propaganda is the sort often found in flights from reality?orotund, florid, declamatory, and so ecstatic as to approach hysteria. Communists delight in identifying themselves historically with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome?or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams...
Although Harvard's mission is now "world-wide," wrote Pusey, "this is not to question Harvard's essential rootage in this nation. . . . While some of our unimaginative, vituperative detractors maintain that because we are 'capitalist' we are therefore inevitably 'imperialist,' I would assert from my recent experience that our sense of 'mission' springs rather from a feeling of responsibility and generous interest in world order; and toward this end, in the development of mutual trust and the encouragement of human liberty and well being. We are seriously devoted to the advance and development of emerging regions of the world...
...immediate strategy. At a Djakarta reception next night, he cried dramatically: "They tried to kill me." Aides left no doubt that by "they" Sukarno meant the Dutch, although no one knows who actually planted the grenade. Communist China's Chou En-lai sent Sukarno a message condemning "imperialist ruffians." Khrushchev sent a "sincerely rejoicing" cable on the President's survival...
...ranks of the working class," he wrote. "West German firms deliberately recruited such specialists...Some citizens thought crossing the border between the German Democratic Republic and West Germany was just like going from one Germany to another. But in fact they were escaping from the socialist camp to the imperialist camp. It cost us more than 30 billion marks...almost 40% of the national income...
...there can be no excuse for any settlement which stops short of a redistribution of power. Katangan independence is unacceptable--not simply because Tshombe is the tool of the imperialist Union Miniere, or because of the rightism which characterizes his regime...