... the radio, of living life behind the iron curtain. The radio broadcasts didn't end with only unknown refugees pleading for a democratic Italy, but with powerful messages from American celebrities like Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper, among others pulling for democracy to prevail. Hollywood radio stations also got involved campaigning to raise money for orphans of Italian pilots from the Second World ... ...

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... ; in 1900 the political and military realities were truly such that we had relatively little to fear in the immediate sense, whereas today we have a situation before us which, I am frank to admit, seems to me dangerous and problematical in the extreme." I believe Kennan accurately points out the shortcomings in American attitudes towards Asia and how that carried over to World ... ...

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... to define themselves by and instead they were often only seen as dirty cultural rebels by a large proportion of the general population. By April 1965 senators Ernest Gruening, Wayne Morse, Frank Church and George McGovern all openly opposed war. This was a direct result of the realisation by politicians that the general population did not embrace war and it was more than ... ...

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