I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

Emil Mazey

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Topic

Communism

Speaker

Emil Mazey

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Labor leader

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mazey, Emil. Spoken at labor meeting of the United Automobile Workers. Labor meeting. 1946, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Topic
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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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Topic
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Speaker
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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Sinews of Peace." 5 Mar. 1946, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, USA. Speech.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The Soviet Danger: The Iron Curtain." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.