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S3 Episode 4 - "Red Island"

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The Fall of China to the Communists

The fall of China to the Communists remains a subject for intense debate. Henry Wallace had some thoughts on Truman's inauguration speech. He said it quote, comes closer to a declaration of war than the inaugural address of any peacetime president in our history. His statement that capitalism and communism cannot live together in the same world makes war the only eventual alternative.

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