Posted by Kurt Cylke Jr. on March 12, 1997 at 20:44:30:
In Reply to: Re: A Ransom a Traitor? posted by Ian on March 12, 1997 at 19:21:37:
Thank You Ian for the link to Ransom's writing re: the revolution. Ransom wrote " I ask only that men shall look through the fog of libel that surrounds them, and see that the ideal for which they are struggling, in the only way in which they can struggle, is among those lights which every man of young, and honest heart sees before him somewhere on the road and not among those other lights from which he resolutely turns away. These men who have made the Soviet Government in Russia, if they must fail, will fail with clean shields and clean hearts, having striven for an ideal which will live beyond them. Even if they fail, they will none the less have written a page of history more daring than any other which I can remember in the story of the human race." Aparently, Ransom was more than sympathic. Having aided in smuggling precious gems to the west to fund communist party activities he was taking active role in the global spread of communism. I wonder if any of his activities were connected with soviet support of the American commuist party in the eary part of this century.