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of State for Inter-American Affairs. Vaughin has become an apologist for mil itary take-over. Gorden as Arbossider. to Brazil favored the overthrow of its constitutional President by a cabal of the military, the landed oligarchy and urban property. U Stone continued to note: "our instant support of the military was regarded as signalling the end of Kennedyism, (as be. Monde said at the time) 11 (I.E. Stone's Weekly, March 7, 1966, p. 3.) From our perspective, the elimination of Goulart was taken as a great day for democracy. The Nation specified some of the. great developments for democracy: "There have been 8,000 arrests. Forty (or is it sixty by now?) members of the Brazilian congress have been expelled. An old line general is running the show Everyone who proposed a decent system of taxation, or abolishing illiteracy or enlarging the franchise, or giving land to the peasants, is a communist (The Nation , April 27, 1964, p. 406.) What is significant is not that President Johnson called into office men who might better express his own political style or views, but that powerful interests, particularly those advocating a military hard line, who had to be held in check by Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy, were now being given their own way. It is not that the military and the military -industrial complex were not always a threat and danger, and it is not that they always did not exert a tremendous influence, but it is that after the assassination, it seemed almost more as if they were in control rather than merely being influential. In the Domincan Republic hopes for a pro democratic regime were crushed by the active inter vention of the United States. Theodore Draper says: -67- 67

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