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...There isn't any difference between Hitler and Mussolini, Tarquin in ancient Rome, the tyrants in Sparta, Charles I of England, Louis XIV and Stalin. They are all just alike. Alexander I of Russia was just as much a dictator as any that ever existed. They believed in the enslavement of the common people...
Attending the same banquet, Harry Truman was more direct. "The Greeks also had a Henry Wallace," said the President, but he thought the man was Alcibiades (450-404 B.C.), who deserted Athens for its enemy Sparta, deserted Sparta to return to Athens. He was "the greatest demagogue of all time," said the President. "We are now facing the same danger to this country. ... If imitators of that ancient Greek conqueror want to see its liberties subverted, he ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country...
Died. George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 56, King George II of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Sparta, six months after his second return to the Greek throne; of a heart attack; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Athenian democracy had been exhausted in the struggle with the hard and sterile tyranny of Sparta. One lesson rose from the ruin of Athens: democracies need leaders who, trusting the people, have the courage to tell them what they must sacrifice to remain free. Secretary Marshall has never made a major speech on foreign policy. His fellow citizens, far from indifferent to his views, would listen avidly to what he had to say about their responsibilities in the light of the U.S.'s newly emphasized world leadership...
...nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened after the U.N. commission's arrival, flared up again, this time farther south than before; Communists boldly raided the Sparta prison, freed 200 prisoners...