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and it explains to a certain extent why he didn't take on the fight with Nat Witt and therefore sort of fooled himself into thinking that he could handle Witt and that Witt's word was to be trusted. Witt traded of this.

That, of course, is the great difficulty with these people who think they can handle the Communists. They believe that when a man that they know, talk with every day, who looks like everybody else, has had a good education, all the advantages of life, says, “I will,” that its done. Then they find to their confusion that he didn't do that. He did something else and pulled the wool over your eyes sufficiently so that you didn't realize he had done it. That's done over a long period of time. By the time you discover this there have been intervening actions that make it difficult to go back to the beginning and start all over again on this program. That, of course, is the difficulty he found with Witt. Witt would agree with him perfectly and Millis would feel at case that he would do something. But he didn't it then. He didn't change the system and he would move one man from New Orleans to Dallas, but he also would move a man just like him into New Orleans. He would give





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