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From International Socialist Review, Vol.20 No.1, Winter 1959, p.12.
Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
“The sudden spread of military regimes in the free world worries the Eisenhower Administration,” according to a Dec. 7 special dispatch from Washington to the New York Times.
In the last six months, generals have taken over in seven more countries, bringing the total to sixteen.
“Responsible men at the topmost levels of Government” are “asking why the democratic system is ailing in so many parts of the world” and what “if anything” should be done about it.
The White House, naturally, “does not consider itself responsible, much less to blame” for the trend toward dictatorial military rule. Nevertheless the fact “that the President of the United States is a general probably adds to the sensitivity of the Administration.”
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