'I can't understand this prejudice against America,' Bennet said in a melancholy voice. 'You've got to be a Communist to see in her only the citadel of capitalism. For it's also a country of workers, the country of progress, of prosperity, of the future.'

'It's the country that everywhere and always systematically takes the side of the privileged. In China, in Greece, in Turkey, in Korea, what are they defending? It isn't the people, is it? It's capital, it's the big land holdings. When I think that they're supporting Franco and Salazar...'

Henri had learned that very morning that his old Portuguese friends had finally fomented a rebellion. It ended up with nine hundred arrests.

'You're speaking of the policies of the State Department,' Bennet said. 'You forget there's also an American people. I assure you that you can put your trust in the leftist trade unions and that whole segment of the nation which sincerely believes in liberty and democracy.'

'The unions have never opposed the government's policy,' Henri said.