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...struggle. Third, he poses as the alternative the philosophical-sounding, "wiser-than-when-I-was-young" approach of Mike Kazin. And fourth, he dismisses an organized, communist movement as a serious alternative to this otherwise depressing picture. That's where "We" comes in. It was written to mock communism without having to take an open stand--the safest way. In doing this Shapiro displays truly creative journalism, some samples of which follow...
...that the official U.S. attitude has not undergone significant changes since that Eisenhower statement. After eight months as ambassador, Graham A. Martin made clear in his first newspaper interview that, despite all the current rhetoric about an "honorable peace," the Nixon administration is still bound by a fierce anti-communism which requires continued support at almost any cost of a corrupt and illegitimate dictatorship. Martin and the White House persist in maintaining that the way to resolve Vietnam's problems and prevent an ultimate communist takeover is a large infusion of military and economic...
...tunnel, which Westmoreland, Eisenhower and so many others finally admitted they could not see, is still a long way off. And the light will continue to be until Martin and the Nixon administration abandon their efforts to adhere to the rigid dicta of the fifties' anti-communism and the pocket-book interests of American corporations and military factions...
...Three years later, Papadopoulos betrayed his own rationale in an interview with a British journalist, who reported that the premier "made the interesting admission that in the years before his seizure of power, democracy in Greece had not been in danger of being overthrown through the direct activities of Communism...
...serious impact on the case, was Gold's homosexuality. Homosexuality in the 1930s required a kind of double life, and since Gold's initial involvement with the Communist Party came through his association with a fellow homosexual, a man known as Tom Black, the two elements--homosexuality and communism, both demanding secrecy and subterfuge--became intertwined in his life. There is good reason to believe that when the FBI investigated him he was threatened with exposure as a homosexual (a common practice of the bureau at that time) which may have increased his desire to cooperate...