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Indeed the evidence seems to suggest a "law" of popular gravitation to democratic freedom. Within the past five years there have been violent outbreaks in East Berlin, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Communist China. Today the Soviet rulers threaten West Berlin. Why? It is simple. It is because they have been put on the defensive by the inspiring demonstration there of what free men can do. Internally, Red China is feverishly imposing a communization program designed quickly to transform the Chinese nation into a great military and industrial power. The program involves human slavery, and cruelty on a scale unprecedented...
...appearance, across southern Asia, of numerous military dictatorships bearing a similarity to Nasser's. The revolt in Pakistan may be but one example of a more general movement which has touched Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon in recent months, Thailand, Burma and Pakistan in the last weeks, and which may threaten the governments of Malaya and Ceylon...
...right or wrong, and in the majority or a minority, so long as others have the same right. The resulting interplay can create still better views. This principle allows every faith to flourish for whatever it is worth; and no faith ought to swallow or seem to threaten to swallow the public hand that has sheltered...
...there must be sober realization by the American people that our legitimate purposes are again being tested by those who threaten peace and freedom everywhere...
Reed's huge majority welded the Kansas Republican Party together in a way to threaten, for the first time, Democrat Docking's hope of becoming Kansas' first two-term Democratic Governor in November. The last three Democratic Governors in orthodox Republican Kansas, recalled Clyde Reed, from lessons learned at his daddy's knee, were beaten by Republicans from his area. One of them by his own father...