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Churchill, Winston. Address in the House of Commons. House of Commons meeting. 11 Nov. 1947, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Black, Hugo. United States, Supreme Court. Everson v. Board of Education. United States Reports, vol. 330, 10 Feb. 1947, pp. 1-74. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/330/1/.

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Camus, Albert. L'Homme Revolte [The Rebel]. Gallimard, 1951.

The happy ending is our national belief.

Mary McCarthy

America the Beautiful

On Americans.

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McCarthy, Mary. "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub." Commentary Magazine, Sept. 1947.

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?

J. Parnell Thomas

Standard question asked of witnesses testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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Thomas, J. Parnell. Hearing on communist influences in the motion picture industry. 30 Oct. 1947, Washington, DC, USA.

Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!

Charlie Chaplin

Monsieur Verdoux

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Monsieur Verdoux. Directed by Charlie Chaplin, United Artists, 1947.

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Truman, Harry S. Address about establishing the Truman Doctrine. Joint session of Congress. 12 Mar. 1947, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Baruch, Bernard M. Address before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. Senate Committee meeting. 24 Oct. 1947, Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Elizabeth II. Speech on her twenty-first birthday. 21 Apr. 1947, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa. Radio broadcast.

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Sayers, Dorothy. Creed or Chaos? Methuen & Co., 1947, ch. 6.

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Steinbeck, John. "Interview with a Best-Selling Author: John Steinbeck." Interviewed by Robert van Gelder. Cosmopolitan, Apr. 1947.

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Patton, George Smith. War As I Knew It. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947, pt. 3.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

Malcolm Lowry

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Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano. Reynal & Hitchcock/Jonathan Cape, 1947, ch. 12.

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Marshall, George Catlett. Address announcing the Marshall Plan. 5 June 1947, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

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Kennan, George Frost [published as "X"]. "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Foreign Affairs, July 1947.

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Toynbee, Arnold J. Quoted in A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI, written by D.C. Somervell. Oxford University Press, 1948, vol. 4.

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Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

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Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

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Baruch, Bernard M. Address in the South Carolina Legislature. 16 Apr. 1947, State House, Columbia, SC, USA.