NATO countries hastened to assure Americans that they regarded Goldwater’s solicitude toward them with nothing but dismay. The Tory Daily Telegraph spied “dark eddies in American life,” and Austria’s Neues Österreich observed “shivers” sent “down the back of humanity.” Time interviewed a Munich banker who said, “If we give you four or five years, you’ll start putting on brown shirts.” Goldwater’s only foreign support came from South Africans, Spanish monarchists, and German neofascists—which only made sense, according to a Washington Star editorial perfectly encapsulating the mood: “The
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