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Dictatorship Defeats Itself, Says Markham

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"Totalitarianism is unable to solve the problems that face the world," declared R. H. Markham, former foreign correspondent for the "Christian Science Monitor," to an audience at International House last night. "Instead of remedying the crisis by a selfless devotion, it complicates the problem with hate and increased corruption."

"The spread of Communism threatens to perpetuate the evils of tyranny by enforcing the rule of a small minority party on the vast majority throughout the Balkans." said Mr. Markham. He added that the only methods capable of resolving the uncertainty and division of the nations must come from an extension of wisdom, humility, honesty, and kindness all of which totalitarianism poisons by its method and ideology.

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