These extremely downright opin fons of the President startled even some of those who privately enders: fed them. They felt that he should perhaps have drawn a distinction between the aggressive and the peacefal dictatorships, and made the cri {terion not internal forms of govern. ment. But external actions. Though ju the ultimate future the statement that peace would only be safe if democracy was everywhere establish-fed was' in line with traditional 'American political faith, yet for the immediate future they felt that a policy of recognizing gradations of evil in the dictator forms of government' was. desirable. Very few Latin. American states for example would pass every test of democratic
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