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...Mortimer, the U.S.A. stinks. The Mafiais around every street corner, with a slot machine under each arm. The Communists are pushing dope. Legislatures can be bought at a hundred dollars a man. Youth is "unbridled and hopped-up." "Greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are turning America--"man's bravest dream"--into a "nightmare." Luckily, Lait and Mortimer have been Johnny-on-the-spot, grubbing under every available rock for their case against the country...
Said Murphy: "In my opinion, one of the bravest of all Americans, and one of the most gallant, was Whittaker Chambers. Consider the agony and humiliation to which he submitted himself . . Chambers could have remained silent. In silence he could have protected the $30,000-a-year position he held ... his wife and two lovely children, who forever must bear the scars of that dreadful experience. And silence would have protected him from the devilishly clever smear campaign launched against him by Communists and their dupes in this country...
...capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German industrial capacity still in Western hands, there were calamitous dangers in the present situation of free Europe. The free nations had scarcely made a beginning at integrating their industrial efforts. France's bravest postwar gesture, the Schuman Plan to unite Western European coal and steel production, was bogging down in nationalist jealousies...
Hell burst around the leathernecks as they moved up the barren face of the ridge. Everywhere along the assault line, men dropped. To continue looked impossible. But, all glory forever to the bravest men I ever saw, the line did not break. The casualties were unthinkable, but the assault force never turned back. It moved, fell down, got up and moved again...
Whatever the outcome, U.N. was committed to armed action. It was the sternest, bravest step for peace that either U.N. or the League of Nations had ever taken...