"Evil Empire" (June 8, 1982; March 8, 1983)

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http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/empire.htm
Seventeen Years Ago This Week, Ronald Reagan Called the Soviet Union the 
Focus of Evil in the Modern World. The 'Evil Empire' Speech Disturbed the 
Political Universe, but the Critical Words Almost Went Unsaid. 

President Reagan's Evil Empire Speech, often credited with hastening the end 
of Soviet totalitarianism, almost didn't happen. According to presidential 
papers obtained by The Morning Call, Reagan was thwarted on at least one earlier 
occasion from using the same blunt, anti-communist phrases he spoke from the 
bully pulpit 17 years ago this week. And former Reagan aides now say it was 
their furtive effort in the winter of 1983 that slipped the boldest of words past 
a timid bureaucracy. With clever calculation, the Evil Empire Speech eluded 
U.S. censors to score a direct hit on the Soviet Union. "It was the stealth 
speech," said one Reagan aide. In the spring of 1982, the president felt the 
reins on his rhetoric. The first draft of his address to the British Parliament 
labeled the Soviet Union the world's "focus of evil." He liked the text. But 
Parliament never heard those words. U.S. diplomats and cautious Reagan advisers 
sanitized the text of the speech, removing its harshest terms, according to 
documents from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. But 
nine months later, Reagan spoke in Orlando, Fla., and delivered many of the 
passages deleted from the London address. His Orlando speech is known as the 
Evil Empire Speech. The speech alarmed moderates of the West, delighted millions 
living under Soviet oppression and set off a global chain reaction that many 
believe led inexorably to the fall of the Berlin Wall and to freedom for most 
of Eastern Europe. The Reagan Library papers provide fascinating insights into 
the drafting of what may have been the most important presidential statement 
of the Cold War. They also reveal that, despite the unremitting influences on 
him, the president himself decided what he would say. "Letus be aware that 
while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over 
individual man, predict its eventual domination of all peoples of the Earth, they are 
the focus of evil in the modern world," Reagan told the National Association 
of Evangelicals on March 8, 1983. An audience of 1,200 was first to hear the 
words "focus of evil" in the Citrus Crown Ballroom at the Sheraton Twin Towers 
Hotel in Orlando. And other phrases slashed from the Parliament speech were 
resurrected in the Evil Empire Speech. 
> » The 1982 first draft said, "Those cliches of conquest we have heard so 
> often from the East are ... part of a sad, bizarre, dreadfully evil episode in 
> history, but an episode that is dying, a chapter whose last pages even now 
> are being written." The sentence was censored in London, but in Orlando Reagan 
> said, "I believe that Communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human 
> history whose last pages even now are being written." » The London first draft 
> included the words of the late British novelist C.S. Lewis: "The greatest evil 
> is not in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. ... It is 
> conceived and ordered ... in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, 
> by quiet men." The words were held until Orlando. 
> (...)

(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)(1086 hits for "evil empire")
    1.  Tarzan
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, 
Calif.: Oct 4, 1936. p. 4A (1 page) 
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SADLY THE JUNGLE LORD FORESAW THE GROWTH OF A VAST AND EVIL EMPIRE WHICH 
SOMEDAY MIGHT THREATEN HIS OWN DOMAIN.

    2.  MR. CHURCHILL'S PLEA
Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Mar 7, 1946. p. 18 (1 
page):
   Mr. Churchill is so honestly an Englishman and so honestly a conservative 
imperialist that the incongruity of the remedy he suggests for the situation 
which he helped bring about quite obviously escapes him.  He proposes an 
alliance, half slave and half free, with the British empire representing slavery.  
He comes really as a suppliant, begging assistance for that old and evil empire 
and frankly expecting to get it on his own terms. 

    3.  AMERICA IN BAD COMPANY
Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Nov 20, 1946. p. 20 (1 
page) :
   In the peace conference and in the United Nations our government is in 
intimate association with the great and evil empires.  It is not our 
responsibility or duty to reform them but it is our privilege to dissociate ourselves fro 
mtheir enslavements and oppressions. 

    4.  Other 48 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Sep 4, 1949. p. 
D6 (1 page)   
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    5.  Other 6 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Sep 5, 1949. p. 
A2 (1 page)   

    6.  Mesquite, Tex., vs. 'Evil Empire'
By PETER APPLEBOMESpecial to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current 
file). New York, N.Y.: Jan 23, 1982. p. 7 (1 page) 
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    7.  Excerpts From President's Speech to National Association of 
Evangelicals
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Mar 9, 1983. p. A18 (1 
page) 

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Tri City Herald - 1/7/1968  
...HANGS THE FATE OF BALDA HAN AND HIS EVIL EMPIRE. _ NEXT WEEKTo Arms..
Pasco, Washington Sunday, January 07, 1968  567 k       

Nevada State Journal - 1/7/1968     
...HAM69 1MB RATE OP BAiPA HAM ANP HIS EVIL EMPIRE. MCXT J. PIERPONT 
6R066INS..
Reno, Nevada Sunday, January 07, 1968  557 k    

Bradford Era - 3/9/1951     
...bullet for bullet and smashed their EVIL EMPIRE ZERO HOSTEL' TED de 
CORSlA..
Bradford, Pennsylvania Friday, March 09, 1951  605 k    

Bismarck Tribune - 6/16/1954    
...hunt that finally destroyed their EVIL EMPIRE 'KIUERS-FOR-HIRE'-ANDTHE 
MWI..
Bismarck, North Dakota   Wednesday, June 16, 1954  539 k    

Progress - 5/14/1951    
...AFTER CLUE THAT FINALLY SMASHED THEIR EVIL EMPIRE with ZERO MOSTEL 
EVERETT..
Clearfield, Pennsylvania Monday, May 14, 1951  681 k    

Chronicle Telegram - 9/27/1979  
...We trained for 30 years to fight the 'EVIL EMPIRE.' We trained to break 
things..
Elyria, Ohio Thursday, September 27, 1979  518 k        

Chronicle Telegram - 9/12/1979  
...pierce what comes across as a Tobacco EVIL EMPIRE, the tone is as sinister 
as..
Elyria, Ohio Wednesday, September 12, 1979  500 k       

Bismarck Tribune - 6/15/1954    
...hunt that finally destroyed their EVIL EMPIRE 'KIUERS-FOH-HIRE'-ANDTHE 
MAN..
Bismarck, North Dakota   Tuesday, June 15, 1954  638 k      

Wellsboro Agitator - 10/13/1948     
...MILLAND AMERICAN BEYOND SAINTED "SO EVIL EMPIRE..
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Wednesday, October 13, 1948  717 k      

Lethbridge Herald - 9/5/1957    
...is deployed at last, and as the EVIL EMPIRE of Hitlerism is now 
visibly.....founder and editor for V) years of the EMPIRE Renew, died in a Wimbledon..
Lethbridge, Alberta Thursday, September 05, 1957  940 k 

Hampton Chronicle - 6/7/1951    
...hunt that finally destroyed their EVIL EMPIRE. Arrange Details Of The 
July..
Hampton, Iowa Thursday, June 07, 1951  679 k    