Paul Scofield Quotes
If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Life listed prominent people who they classified as ‘dupes’ of the communist conspiracy and ‘fellow travelers’, those who associated with ‘communists.’ Ironically, when Einstein was a young man in Berlin, he was one of the few prominent people in Germany who spoke out against the German militarism and the rush to War (WWI). Then he was also referred to as a dupe and a fellow traveler of the English and Americans. Einstein was particularly outspoken against racism and segregation at a time when many Southern, racial conservatives accused all opponents of segregation of being communists or carrying the communist line.
Both Hitler and Stalin were gross egomaniacs who each thought that they had gotten the better of things. The result was that 22 million Russians were killed and the industrial base if Russia Was destroyed. On the German side, the German military was virtually destroyed, many civilians were killed, the nation reduced to rubble and starvation, German leaders were killed, jailed or committed suicide including Hitler, and the country was occupied for years. Neither leader appeared very smart if one judges by the results.
David Paul Scofield CH CBE was an English actor. During a career that spanned six decades, Scofield achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, Emmy, and Tony for his work. He won the three awards in a seven-year span, the fastest of any performer to accomplish the feat.
