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H. L. Mencken

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The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.
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October 24, 1945

 
H. L. Mencken

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