“Perhaps the greatest good that will emerge from this Far Eastern crisis is an awareness that freedom-loving men of all races and all nations will have proved that they can and must work and fight together if their freedom is to survive.”

—  Bill Downs

Stated on "Edward R. Murrow with the News" on December 26, 1952.

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American journalist 1914–1978

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