Bernard Beckett... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
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During the McCarthy Era, the State Department was under suspicion of being tied to communism, or at least having communist sympathizers on its payroll. The idea that the rest of the world was more afraid of what Americans thought about them than what they themselves were doing is an interesting concept. Were people truly afraid of America’s influence over them? Or had they decided to use this fear as a way to make themselves seem more important?
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