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Miscellaneous letters to Helen Fox, 1933-1945
1935-08-21 Maureen Croly to Helen Fox Page 5
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5 outbursts of the Italian press, and to Mussolinis studied insolence in ignoring our offer of territory of our own in Abyssinia as the price of peace. But there, if a man, a Mussolini or a Hitler, educates children from the cradle upwards to be soldiers, he must ultimately find an outlet. Do you remember the Greek legend of the hero Cadmus, who at the gods' bidding saved the teeth of a dragon he had killed? From the teeth sprang a crop of---soldiers. And these having nothing better to do, fell upon each other, till finally only 5 men out of that new-sprung army were left to crawl to Cadmus' feet. The old legends had their germ of sense, and if
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5 outbursts of the Italian press, and to Mussolinis studied insolence in ignoring our offer of territory of our own in Abyssinia as the price of peace. But there, if a man, a Mussolini or a Hitler, educates children from the cradle upwards to be soldiers, he must ultimately find an outlet. Do you remember the Greek legend of the hero Cadmus, who at the gods' bidding saved the teeth of a dragon he had killed? From the teeth sprang a crop of---soldiers. And these having nothing better to do, fell upon each other, till finally only 5 men out of that new-sprung army were left to crawl to Cadmus' feet. The old legends had their germ of sense, and if
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