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...spokesmen, echoed by the British Foreign Office, have scornfully belittled the propaganda as a monstrous and incredible Big Lie. Through the U.N., the International Red Cross has offered to investigate, and has been brusquely rebuffed by the Communists. Meanwhile, the Big Lie is spread with undiminished intensity by Russian and Chinese press and radio, by such native-son instruments as New York's Daily Worker and the West Coast's Daily People's, by France's Humanite and its Communist-Physicist Frederic Joliot-Curie...
...speaks for are without arms or resources, and can play no part in the power line-up of the world. Yet, in ignoring them, the West does injury to itself and to its moral case. His aims for them are moderate; he is passionately sure that they suffer monstrous injustice; he is using whatever means are open to a Christian to help them. It seems certain that he will be defeated in the end and pass, among politicians, for a failure. But it is likely that he will be remembered by millions of voteless Africans as one Christian who cared...
Chambers continued: "It was as if a loathsome interloper (myself) had climbed like a thief into one of those beautiful old brick-welled Baltimore gardens or into Harvard yard italics are Chambers (Marbury is a Harvard Overseer) (sic) and there perpetrated a disgusting outrage by making a monstrous charge against Alger Hiss--a charge which was automatically monstrous not only be-because it touched a friend but because it let the excluded world peep inquisitively over Marbury's cherished walls...
...idea that Russia has any notion of making war on Western Europe constitutes "a monstrous misreading of history...
Parts of the article read like something out of the pages of science fiction. Not only is the secrecy fantastic, but the whole crazy business is fantastic, and I can't bring myself to believe that such monstrous things are really going on. The next logical question would be "Why?"-and I don't think anybody could adequately answer that. The old standby, that it's for a bigger and more secure world, doesn't sound convincing any more ... It has become somewhat of a god: Hail, all hail to Baal, Baal, the Hydrogen Bomb...