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Bruce L. Chapman '62 said yesterday that most of the activity of the National Review as well as that of the Young Americans for Freedom, the John Birch Society and other extreme rightist elements, is aimed at defeating Republicans rather than Democrats...
...swift plane to soft exile or by swifter bullet, most of the hemisphere's oldtime rightist dictators in fancy uniforms have given way to democracy or to the new kind of nominally democratic strongmen who rule heavily while spieling the jargon of social reform. On the entire South American continent, only one old-school tyrant remains: a trimly mustached, part-German artillery general named Alfredo Stroessner, boss of backward Paraguay. Last week, after a trip into Stroessner's stronghold, TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti reported that the survivor is under pressure to retire or reform. Reported Saporiti...
...bill sought merely to punish demonstrators who provoked violence or invaded official quarters, such as the Diet grounds and the Prime Minister's residence. But prodded by the powerful Sohyo trade union combine, the Socialist opposition soon was demanding that only rightist demonstrators be curbed. For weeks Ikeda tried to work out a compromise. Finally, Ikeda lost patience and forced the bill to a vote in the lower house. In Japan, this is described as resorting to "the tyranny of the majority." Socialist delegates resorted to their fists, forcibly took over the rostrum. The Speaker riposted by conducting...
...broken by the Overseas Weekly, an independent, American-owned newspaper that has won a big audience among U.S. soldiers in Europe with a mixture of sex and carefully documented exposés of officers abusing their rank. According to the Overseas Weekly, Walker was stuffing his troops with the rightist rantings of Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, once made a public speech in which he called President Truman "definitely pink" and TV's Edward R. Murrow a "confirmed Communist." A man of towering temper, Walker was so enraged when he heard of Murrow's appointment as director...
...Latin Americans have long urged the U.S. to be as ready to deplore rightist dictatorships as leftist ones. Kennedy last week hoped impartially that the victims of Castro and Trujillo, "the people of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, will soon rejoin the society of free men." ¶ Latin Americans have as keen an ear as anyone else for a catchy slogan. Kennedy gave them one: "Progreso, Si! Tirania, No! [Progress, Yes! Tyranny, No!]." Time to Mobilize. Through both of Kennedy's messages ran the insistent theme that U.S. aid must be accompanied by self-help on the part...