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...seekers rises by 2,000,000 every year. Yet in its first Five-Year Plan India managed to boost food output by 18%, to make itself (given good weather) largely self-sufficient for food. Across the Himalayas, where a rival drama of planned advance is being enacted, the totalitarian techniques of Chinese Communism can claim no such gains on the land...
...foreign policy as well, he continued, the Republicans support the basic Democratic concepts in recognizing the need for cooperation with "like-minded foreign nations to protect our own national interests," and in acknowledging that the existence of a major totalitarian power is a threat to our national interests and its expansion "must be resisted and thwarted...
Despite the contentment of its unorganized workers, the company has been a steady target for the politically conscious island labor unions, and these unions have the powerful outside backing of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., whose roving European Ambassador Irving Brown argues: "When we attack totalitarian systems, we can't justify an American company in Cyprus refusing its workers the right to organize." The company now finds itself beset by pickets, by recently raised taxes (from 35% to 42½% of net profits) and by the uncertainty of Cyprus' political future. Says the company's undeterred resident director, Robert...
Suzanne Labin writes with a hatpin. This young (thirtyish) French political scientist impales totalitarian myths and neutralist delusions, prods lukewarm intellectuals who rarely rise to the defense of democracy, or if they do, praise it with faint damns. Author Labin has small use for so-called thinkers who don the smoked glasses of a spurious objectivity and report that they can see no difference between Western freedom and Eastern tyranny except "shades of grey." She believes that it is worth restating the great central truth, or "secret," of democracy, i.e., that it is the first, last, best and only hope...
Hamlet or Othello? The book is an exercise in anti-gullibility, an examination of the totalitarian sophistries about the free world which democrats have often uncritically swallowed. The prime myth of the totalitarians. Nazi. Fascist or Communist, is that they are modern, "the wave of the future." In reality, they are as age-old as tyranny. According to the Soviet Union, "an ineluctable law governs history" in their favor; yet it requires nothing less than "a constant reign of terror to crush the plots that might alter its unalterable course." The secondary myths are that the totalitarians are young, strong...