Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement in TIME'S April 9 review of Kinross' Atatürk that Turkey "through two world struggles has held staunchly with the free world against totalitarian tyranny" is clearly erroneous. In World War I, Turkey was an ally of Germany's against the French-English-Russian-American alliance. In World War II, Turkey remained neutral while the fight was going on and, in fact, provided thousands of tons of valuable chromium ore to the Nazis throughout the war. Finally, on Feb. 23, 1945, about two months before the end of the war and when the outcome...
...such stiff tests, there are scarcely more than twoscore genuinely functioning democracies. But they embrace about 40% of the world's 3.2 billion people. Another 40% live under the "barbary" of totalitarian rule, the rest in political halfway houses. The governments that most closely meet the democratic tests are, of course, concentrated in the U.S., the old British Commonwealth and Western Europe. In the nature of things, none is perfect, and some are deeply troubled. None achieved democracy quickly, easily, or as the gift of any master. Nobles had to bend to kings, kings...
...report did not, as you assert, say that the U.S. has the right and the duty to intervene in Vietnam. It said that the U.S. "would have the right, if not the obligation, to support the rights of the minority" if the Viet Cong attempted to impose a totalitarian government. While this may have been poor phrasing, it cannot possibly be interpreted, except by the CRIMSON, as stating that we have a duty to intervene...
...with cirrhosis of the liver, and in 1938 he died. The republic survived, and in it Atatürk's achievement, raddled at times by reaction, still stands: a moderately modern and reasonably democratic Turkey that through two world struggles has held staunchly with the free world against totalitarian tyranny...
...line liberals point out that the United States is the only non-totalitarian of the three great powers. Thus any war America fights against the dominions of the Russians or Chinese is anti-totalitarian. Furthermore, it is urged, there is no power imperative for withdrawing in Vietnam, since the cost of the predominantly aerial offensive is marginal, and since U.S. nuclear superiority will enable the U.S. to outbluff the Chinese and the Russians on ground escalation. Therefore the day-to-day facts I.F. Stone documents are only the superficial phenomena of the power realities. Radicals, liberals say, have always shivered...