Posted by David N. Seaman on June 10, 19101 at 16:10:27:
In Reply to: Re: Nagasaki and Hiroshima, etc posted by Richard Pond on June 03, 19101 at 10:50:27:
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: Chomsky cited some evidence in "Deterring Democracy" that elements in the US State Dept etc had filed reports that were essentially sympathetic towards Mussolini.
: Many felt the US/British/French "neutrality" on the Spanish Civil War was in its effect helpful to the fascists, though that was probably not the US and certainly not the French governments' intentions.
: From circa 1950 the US developed a close relationship with the Spanish dictatorship, sometimes described as fascist. The rightwing Portugese dictatorship became a member of NATO.
: Richard Pond