Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hayes, a history professor at Columbia, has often said that he is against all forms of totalitarianism. Nevertheless, in his Wartime Mission in Spain (published in English last year), Hayes could make a choice of evils. He took the view that Russia, being both totalitarian and pagan, was worse than totalitarian but pious Spain, and that Franco's regime was not as bad as friends of Russia made out. Much of his comment was distinctly unflattering to Franco, however, and he insisted that his text be strictly followed in the translation. It was, except for the circumlocution...
...Unitarian writers] thinks that a realistic view of human nature easily 'excuses personal and individual inaction as well as acquiescence in the idea of dictatorship.' . . . Most of the continental resistance churches were informed by a dialectical theology. . . . It is stupid and malicious to deny the moral and religious heroism of continental Christianity in fighting the evils of Nazism...
...question finally starting to bother Americans in China is "sovereignty for what?" The sovereignty so far is one of greed, ineptitude and Government preserved by force. And this is not a radical view any longer, but a realistic and fairly moderate one, expressible in polite and capitalist company...
...does this view neglect to give the Government, on the credit side, allowance for all obstructions dropped in its path by Communist sabotage or for the wide and tragic war devastation that hinders recovery. It is a view that considers the performance of the Central Government on its merits...
...bound into our global military strategy, increasingly so because of the worsening of relations with Russia. It is probably this fact that gives confidence to the Kuomintang's bitter-enders. These men smugly ask themselves: What can the Americans do but continue to support the Central Government, in view of the ideological tie between China's Communists and Soviet Russia? They assume that our strategic military position binds us to the Central Government, whether we like its attitude and its economics...