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...manifestation of Communist aggression in Korea during these last six months," said Douglas, "is but the showing of the fin of the shark above the water. It is but a fraction of the striking power of the man-eater which lies beneath the surface. Day before yesterday it was Czechoslovakia; yesterday it was China; today it is Korea. What will it be tomorrow...
Would either accomplish the job that had to be done: drive the shark back to deep water, or shoot it? Douglas was convinced that neither could. The end of Gibraltarism would be the feast of the shark on all Asia and Europe, he argued. U.S. forces, he said, are the key to West Europe's resistance. "If we refuse [to help], they . . . may indeed throw in the sponge...
...about Asia? Douglas turned to the other alternative. He called it the "Protect Europe but Not Asia" position, and he attributed its strength to "the councils of the executive Government and a number of able publicists." This school, he said, would let the shark gobble Asia and, with it, the Middle East and Africa. "They are resigned to this because they believe that we and Western Europe do not have the strength to defend both Asia and Western Europe . . . For Western Europe, it is said, is the vital seat of power and the only permanent head for the Russian serpent...
Pinoculus thinks this is a wonderful life ("0 quam dulcis vita!"), until he is turned into a donkey. Later, after being thrown into the sea to drown and being swallowed by a terrible shark ("Ehi, mihi misero," he wails in the black stomach), he finally gets back home and, as a reward for his general goodness, turns into a boy. "Oh," says Pinoculus, "how ridiculous I was when I was a puppetQuam deridiculus apparui, donee pupulus fueram...
...Engine? Once a whale shark larger than the raft itself came alongside, but it gave no trouble, not even when Hesselberg begged for it by plaguing the visitor with a harpoon. As for mere sharks, they worried no one: it became sport to haul them aboard by the tail with the bare hand. The Kon-Tiki's food kept well, stored below the deck in asphalt-coated containers, and seafood was a glut in the galley. Flying fish, good eating, practically flung themselves at the frying...