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...Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
Then, pale as death, Quisling himself launched into a two-day plea for his life. He did not deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
Sober-sided New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin rumbled: "There is not much use blinking the fact that . . . the Japanese had made us look like monkeys- not on the battlefield, but since fighting virtually ceased...
...moment to turn over their job to any returned war vet; people who, in order to help in war plants of all kinds, must pay dues and fines for the privilege of helping win the war and thus bring their sons, daughters, husbands and fathers home from the battlefield; people who are good and big enough to deserve constructive rather than a constant bombardment of destructive criticism from a well-deserving but often dangerous press...
...this to a Kansas farmer boy and keep its reputation for sophistication." But again, as he talked, he quit smiling. Said he: "Can the parents of those children look ten years ahead and be satisfied with anything less than [their] best to keep them . . . from the horrors of the battlefield...