"It was clumsy and cruel and thoughtless and without consideration. Step by step, the west blundered and floundered into a dilemma they never completely comprehended and never in fact sought: from the very beginning, they argued in cliches."
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Describing the US actions against against North Vietnam (1965).
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James Cameron (journalist)
Mark James Cameron (17 June 1911 – 26 January 1985) was a British journalist, broadcaster, travel-writer and historian, whose work bears the impress of his socialist and pacifist convictions.
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