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From the 7 January 1946 issue of LIFE magazine, an interesting story by John Dos Passos on what noisy cats are we.
Here's a bit of Dos Passos' socialist cocksuckery:
We know now the tragic results of the ineptitudes of the Peace of Versailles. The European system it set up was Utopia compared to the present tangle of snarling misery. The Russians at least are carrying out a logical plan for extending their system of control at whatever cost. The British show signs of recovering their good sense and their innate human decency. All we [Americans] have brought to Europe so far is confusion backed up by a drumhead regime of military courts. We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease.
(Thanks to the blog Jessica's Well for this cool link.)