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...play haven't even the dramatic intensity of the Workers' decision to "Strike! Strike!" at the conclusion of Waiting for Lefty. As far as I could tell, the entire production was geared to a sort of "Lest We Forget" sentiment, complete with a quote from William L. Shirer in the program notes. Such a sentiment is hardly enough to motivate a dramatic experience, and it is dangerous for other reasons, I think -- because of its tendency (in plays like The Diary of Anne Frank) to blur into something than can only be called nostalgia...
During the war, Murrow hired a talented broadcasting staff: Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, William Shirer, Charles Collingwood. His generosity to the people who worked for him was legendary, and around the networks something akin to a Murrow cult was formed. Eventually one CBS man, who had had enough, organized a Murrow Ain't God Club, and Murrow himself applied for charter membership...
Turning to the problem of Hitler's rise to power, Shirer said, "It is a mistake to think that Nazism was a minority movement in Germany. The Hitler regime had the support of an overwhelming majority of the German people...
...Shirer based his contentions on observations he made as a correspondent in pre-war Germany. He was particularly concerned about the lack of opposition to Hitler from the clergy. "The lack of guts in churches, both Protestant and Catholic, was the most heartbreaking thing in my experience in Germany," he said...
...Shirer concluded his lecture with a discussion of the independence movement in India, which he called "One of the greatest historical events of my lifetime...