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...voice which would have made even the Gettysburg Address sound like the chant of a tobacco auctioneer, the clerk of the U.S. Senate droned out the message which President Truman and his aides had worked over so long and earnestly. Prosaically spoken, the words dealt with a passionately debated issue: How can a nation defend its freedom against those who would claim freedom's privileges in order to destroy freedom...
Insistent in adult ears, the rhythmic tick-tick-tick of jump ropes sounded last week across the land. From Atlanta to San Francisco, from Boston to Dallas, the shrill chant of little-girl voices made loud the early morning's quiet and the twilight's repose. To the irascible, the runes sounded much as ever, but a careful listener could detect differences. In Dallas, little girls chanted...
...Throw Them Out." Such teaching produces the hooligan bands that raid Western Berlin and smear Communist slogans on the walls. It organizes the grinning gangs that stand on Potsdamer Platz and chant songs about how the FDJ would throw the "splitters of Germany" (i.e., the Western Allies) out of Berlin...
...near future, all physically fit youngsters will have to complete a two-month course of police training, as a prelude to a general, semimilitary conscription. FDJ members sing political propaganda, the way American youngsters sing football songs. FDJ people's police units, marching in Berlin parades, chant their thudding song...
...evening, the prisoner notices his cell door has been left open. He creeps down an endless corridor; a torturer, carrying the tools of his trade, and two priests pass him without notice. When he finally reaches the open air, his cry of exultation is drowned out by a liturgical chant from chorus and organ. Two arms reach out for him from the shadow of a tree, and the jailer steps forth to inquire, "Why did you want to leave us on the eve of your salvation?" The prisoner then finally understands that he can never escape. His spirit broken...