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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956 (1995)

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