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...bosses of Czechoslovakia picked a successor who was more appreciative of the virtues of Communist-style democracy. Within a few days, Vladimir Houdek, a lumpish, round-shouldered Communist with an acute allergy to hard work, arrived at Lake Success spouting epithets at his predecessor. Papanek, he trumpeted, was a traitor to his country and a tool of the Western warmongers...
Gaunt and nervous, Houdek holed up in his unpretentious suburban home at Great Neck, N.Y., just across the street from a police station, and contemplated the necessity of working for a living. Cocking his ear toward Prague, he said dolefully: "They will . . . declare me a traitor, but I do not regard this as a personal thing...
...since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt, he empties a shotgun at Elizabeth from a distance of ten paces-but misses. Abandoned by the party, with Scotland Yard and Army Intelligence closing in, he is more successful when he tries suicide...
...news to come on. The doorbell rang. Pretty Ly ran down to answer it. The caller was Student Vo. Ly invited him upstairs to join the family circle. As the show began, the visitor leaped from his chair, whipped out a pistol and screamed at Nguyen: "You are a traitor to your country. You have been supplying the French with rice. You have been condemned by a tribunal of the people of Viet Minh and I am here to execute the sentence." Then he began shooting. One of the shots caught the rice merchant in the neck, killing...
...fact did not make any of them a traitor, either in law or in morals. No fair-minded man would deny their right to their opinions, or the obligation of their fellow" citizens to defend their right to voice them. But the legal right to be wrong had somehow gotten distorted into a lazy toleration that assumes all ideas to be created equal, part right, part wrong-and who is man to try to judge between them? It was this soft public negligence about ideas that made wrong ideas dangerous...