Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point about the "firing squad" is concerned, I think Mr. Shubow is taking too much for granted when he assumes that Mr. Wyman wants to shoot every misguided American who thinks the Reds are not getting a square deal. On the contrary, Mr. Wyman makes it plain that "disloyal citizens and spies" are the ones to be "used as targets for a firing squad." In this he is perfectly right, and I know from experience, gained in the last two or three years, that the firing squad is an easy and effective method of getting rid of such traitors...
...Shubow states that he is "just a plain American." This is a bit indefinite, but as the American Legion is setting the standard of Americanism today, I suppose this is the standard to which he refers. If this is so, he has laid himself open to the charge of not living up to the standard because the American Legion never speaks; of the Reds except to say "treat 'em rough" and "kick...
...neither Radical, Socialist, nor Sovietist, but just a plain American, and if I should "feel that the Reds are not getting a square deal," then, according to Mr. W's deduction, I am a "disloyal citizen and a spy, liable to be placed before a firing squad." This appears to be rather illogical logic; feeling about the manner in which humans are treated is not synonymous with enacting the role of a traitor. I beg to differ...