The Amateur
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One of our favorite movies is the film Alfred Hitchcock made in 1940 called “Foreign Correspondent.” It’s about how civilization’s enemy in what became World War II sought to manipulate a peace movement dubbed “well-meaning amateurs” and through them, the press. We wouldn’t want to draw exact parallels to the Vietnam era – or our own wartime drama today – but we couldn’t help think of it as we read Thos. Lipscomb’s dispatch, issued on our Page 1 yesterday, on how the communists in Hanoi were viewing the activities of John Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
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