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“few of the some five thousand convicted Nazis were still in prison after 1953. A number of the interventions on behalf of fortunate war criminals could be traced to the quiet stratagems of Allen Dulles.”
― The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America's Secret Government
― The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America's Secret Government
“Hitler was much more fashionable in the social settings that men like Dulles frequented—in England as well as the United States—than it was later comfortable to admit.)”
― The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America's Secret Government
― The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America's Secret Government
“In reality, the part played by fascism was determined by one factor: the condition of the market system.
During the period 1917-23 governments occasionally sought fascist help to restore law and order: no more was needed to set the market system going. Fascism remained undeveloped.
In the period 1924-29, when the restoration of the market system seemed ensured, fascism faded out as a political force altogether.
After 1930 market economy was in a general crisis. Within a few years fascism was a world power.”
― The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
During the period 1917-23 governments occasionally sought fascist help to restore law and order: no more was needed to set the market system going. Fascism remained undeveloped.
In the period 1924-29, when the restoration of the market system seemed ensured, fascism faded out as a political force altogether.
After 1930 market economy was in a general crisis. Within a few years fascism was a world power.”
― The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
“He who is devout to the Mother of God will certainly never be lost.”
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“The traditional unity of a Christian society was giving place to a denial of responsibility on the part of the well-to-do for the conditions of their fellows. … To the bewilderment of thinking minds, unheard-of wealth turned out to be inseparable from unheard-of poverty. Scholars claimed in unison that a science had been discovered which put the laws governing man’s world beyond any doubt. It was at the behest of these laws that compassion was removed from the hearts, and a stoic determination to renounce human solidarity in the name of the greatest happiness of the greatest number gained the dignity of secular religion.”
― The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
― The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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