Against Communism

I looked upon Europe as trouble. As I see for myself, even until this very day, I went to Korea thinking of communism. I had some, why I had fear, I don’t know. I was a young guy. Why should I be scared of anything? But when I heard communism, it just made me say, “Well, the country wanted volunteers, I’d be it.” Because of the stories I’ve heard of communism, or Bolshevism, in the olden days in the Depression, it just made a young guys blood boil. You know, to hear these things, what did, they do over there? The governments, what did they do with their officers? They shot them. The people, you had to keep quiet, you couldn’t say a word. That kind of government, and I thought, “Gee, we haven’t got it here. What if we have it here? ” It disturbed me a lot. Interviewer: What do you remember about your thoughts in the late 1930s about fascism, or Naziism? Were you thinking that those were similar to what you thought of when you thought of communism? Very much so, very much so. I knew it wasn’t capitalism or democracy. It was just something different, something that was sort of rough. An attitude of somebody running a country. An attitude that wasn’t very good.