""Yes, Dan'I Webster's dead, or at least they buried him." ""But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield," ""they say You can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky." ""And they say that if You go to his grave and speak loud and clear," ""'Dan'I!" "Dan'I Webster!" "'" ""the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake." ""And after a while You'll hear a deep voice saying," ""'Neighbor!" "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" "'" ""Then You better answer, 'The Union stands as she stood," ""'oak-bottomed and coppersheathed, one and indivisible, '" ""or he's liable to rear right out of the ground. "" "This is the hearing room of the House of Representatives" "Committee on Un-American Activities." "We, the citizens of the United States of America, owe these, our elected representatives, a great debt." "Undaunted by the vicious campaign of slander launched against them as a whole and as individuals, they have staunchly continued their investigation pursuing their stated beliefs that anyone who continued to be a Communist after 1945 is guilty of high treason." "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" "I stand on my constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer the question on the grounds that I might incriminate myself." "Permit me to ask you one further question." "In the event of armed hostility between this government and that of Soviet Russia, would you, if called upon, willingly bear arms on behalf of the government of the United States?" "Same question, same answer." "Eleven months." "Eleven frustrating months we rang doorbells and shuffled through a million feet of dull documents and proved to any intelligent person that these people were Communists, agents of the Kremlin, and they all walk out free." "MY fellow investigator, Mal Baxter." "He hates these people." "they had shot at him in Korea." "Witness excused." "The good Dr. Carter would go right back to his well-paid chair as a full professor of economics at the university, to contaminate more kids." "I keep thinking that mug might be delivering a course of lectures to my kids one of these days." "The doctor, remember." "You'll get ulcers." "That Barton." ""Political beliefs are sacred," he says." "He delivered 1,600 microfilms from the laboratory to a Comintern courier." "Is that political beliefs?" "I just work here." "That's wishful thinking." "We can't give this fellow a subpoena." "He left the country yesterday on a Polish freighter." "I shouldn't have handed him that subpoena." "I should have stuffed it down his throat with my hands still around it." "It was just me and him and that subpoena on that dark porch." "Who'd have known the difference if I'd have thrown him one left hook?" "Young, ain't he?" "We're off, Junior." "Jim." "Keep him from blowing his top." "How you doing?" "I live here." "The next day was launched the investigation that made headlines, known as Operation Pineapple." "Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?" "On your left you will see the island of Molokai, where the famous leper colony is located." "In a few moments we will be approaching the island of Oahu on your right and you will see Diamond Head, the first landfall made by Captain Cook when he discovered the Islands." "Beyond that, you will see Waikiki Beach, with the Royal Hawaiian, Surfrider and Moana Hotels." "Excuse me, gentlemen." "Phil Briggs, Honolulu Press Telegram." "Mind telling me your names and the purpose of your visiting the Islands?" "My name's Wilson." "This is Mr. Alcorn." "We're here to make a survey for a chain of lingerie stores." "Jim McLain, 6'4", looks just like the picture I dug out of the morgue." "Who tipped you?" "We belong to the wire services." "Got a query from our Washington office." "The gossip in Washington is that your committee is setting up an investigating team out in the Islands." "Well, we're here on a vacation." "Overwork and all that, you know." "Okay, I'll make a deal." "You got anything worth printing, you give it to me first." "It's a deal." "See you." "Okay." "Phil Briggs." "We found quarters, a duplex." "Real swank, right on the beach." "usually, we work out of a $4 hotel room with a nice view of an alley." "Here's a complete list of all the names from the previous investigation." "Memorize them." "ChaunceY!" "I never would have married You if I'd known You were such a wild, impatient man." "Light some place, will You?" "Now, put this oil on You." "Sunburn on a honeymoon." "It ought to be grounds for divorce." "Who do you think you're working for, Doctor Kinsey?" "Well, I gotta check the gadgets to see if they work." "Besides, it proves it's really a honeymoon couple, not secret agents wiring us for sound." "sunday morning." "Pearl Harbor." "Before official sunrise." "Mal wanted to visit his brother's old ship, USS Arizona." "So we hooked a ride on the morning picket boat." "It seemed strange saluting the quarterdeck, because it was hard to believe that we were standing on the topside fire control platform of the old Arizona, battle-torn, fire-swept and sunken though she is," "USS Arizona is still carried on navy lists as a fighting ship of the line." "She is an everlasting memorial to the gallant men who died at their battle stations." "And below these decks, she still carries a full complement of crew." "207 officers, 1590 bluejackets and Marines." "they have been there since sunday." "sunday, December 7, 1941." "Chief Dan Liu." "Tough, hard, competent copper." "Runs a good force." "The FBI makes up a rating chart on municipal police forces." "Honolulu rates A-1." "We hit some people with subpoenas, but mostly unimportant members in the party." "If they were important, they wouldn't be openly known." "But You never can tell when one of them will talk and point his finger at someone higher up." "It seemed like a good idea to start checking through the doctors." "When I got to the "G's," Dr. Merriam C. Gelster," "I got lucky in more ways than one." " Morning." " Good morning." "I'm from the Downtown Credit Association." "We're checking on the credit of a..." "Willie Nomaka." "He gave your office as a reference." "He's always paid our bills promptly." "What's your home address on him?" "477 Front Street." "He applied for credit and you don't have his home address?" "Well, frankly, lady, he's a little late on a loan payment." "Wrote us he was sick." "Well, he is sick." "He's made almost daily visits the last month." "We get that stall from a lot of people." "Just exactly what's wrong with him?" "I'm sorry, we're not permitted to give that information." "Oh." " Well, thank you, anyway." " You're welcome." "Oh, I know where I've seen you now." "You swim at the Outrigger's Club." "That's a poor subterfuge." "You know very well I couldn't afford the Outrigger's Club." "Are you asking me where I do swim?" "Just exactly." "The public beach at the Point." "Well, I have a little beach in front of my house." "I wouldn't want you to think I was on the make or anything, but..." "You are, aren't you?" "Yes." "I attend a course of lectures at the university on Saturdays." "If you have a car, you could meet me on the makai side at noon." "I have a car." "Makai side, noon." "It's a date." "I should know your name." "Marshall." "Jim Marshall." "Nancy Vallon." "Mrs." " Mrs?" " I'm a widow." "Oh, I'm terribly sorry, I didn't..." "Of course you didn't." "Saturday." " Good morning." " I'm a patient of a Dr. Neill of New York." "Will you come in, sir?" "No." "Ask Dr. Gelster to step out here." "I can just barely recognize the name Dr. Neill." "And I don't recognize his name at all." "A courier from San Francisco last week advised you of my impending arrival." "I haven't the faintest idea what you're speaking of." "Let us dispense with the mumbo jumbo." "We are proud to have you with us, Comrade." "Your illustrious services in many parts of the world..." "Enough of that." "And for security reasons, don't call me Comrade." "I'm sorry." "What is wrong with the Party in Hawaii?" "Wrong?" "Nothing." "As ordered, all top echelons are underground." "Of course, the United States government has indicted the known Party heads, who are merely window-dressing, anyway." "But you knew that." "Of course I knew." "I'm not referring to anything so obvious." "But what would cause the House of Representatives Committee to send another team of investigators here so soon after the last investigation?" "I'm sure I don't know." "And not one that is just an open fact-fishing expedition." "No, no." "This one is important, because, for once, it is adequately financed, unfortunately." "What are they looking for?" "I can't imagine." "We must find out." "What of a Party functionary called Nomaka?" "He has just been relieved as local Party treasurer." "I had a report that he was talking in a strange manner." "Well, he's a sick man, severe nervous trauma." "Get rid of him." "He's not dangerous." "I'm treating him." "I can assure you I have his psychic dependency." "I can control the man." "Get rid of him." "Have him confined in an asylum." "Give him an overdose of something." "Don't bother me with the details, but get rid of him." "I'll attend to it first thing tomorrow." "Why not today?" "Very well." " Hello?" " nancy, this is Dr. Gelster." "Would You please look up Nomaka 's home address?" "Yes, of course, Doctor." " It's 477 Front Street." " Thank You." "Good-bye, Doctor." "As I was telling you before, nearly every union in the Islands is represented here, and we'll all be glad to cooperate." "I'm sure your investigation will be a success." "Thank you." "That's all, men." "Top labor leader Max VentabY, former Communist." "Got hep to them after 10 Years." "Started fighting back." "incidentally, that's how he got that broken nose." "Fighting Commies." "The weekdays were real dull, but not the weekends." "I want to ask you something." "Ask." "Why me?" "You'll have to explain that." "Special job like you, no guys hanging around." "A few have tried." "I don't go out with men, I..." "Fine remark." "I thought I qualified." "You're different." "Nobody noticed that before." "You remind me of a tall, ugly fellow that didn't make it back to his carrier after a raid on Saipan." "I'm sorry, Nancy." "That you remind me?" "I'm not." "For a long, long time," "I thought I'd never want my heart to get that tangled with any man again." "It hurts too much." "I've changed my mind." "I'm too old to believe in miracles." "I never thought it could happen to anyone twice." "And it did." "I wonder if it's chemistry that makes two people understand each other without a word being said." "Stop going to those lectures." "Don't try to analyze it." " Okay." " Just let it be." " One thing, Jim." " Yes?" "Do you want to tell me why you lied to me?" "Credit Investigator for the Downtown Credit Association." "Of course, they told me that you were an employee when I called." "But you drive in a rented car and you're living from week to week in an expensive bungalow." "It just doesn't fit with the job you claim." "Now, those are facts, but more than fact, there's chemistry." "I know you lied." "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." "It won't make any difference." "I don't make much money." "Bum job, but it has to be done." "But I never needed money before, but now, with a wife," " if I wanted to give her mink coats..." " James McLain." "I like that better than James Marshall." "Are you proposing?" "Yes." "May I plan the evening, Jim?" "I wanted to walk." "I don't know why." "It seemed better somehow." "And if you don't mind a supposed hard-minded scientist going on this way," "I want to go in." "I feel so thankful." "All the jillions of people in the world, and we two met." "What odds against it?" "It shows there's a plan." "So if you'll wait here," "I want to go in and give thanks the lightning..." "The good lightning struck me." "Hey." "Why can't I go in?" "The same lightning struck me." "Yeah, I'll send him over to Grey." "Hey, gents!" "Ventaby!" "Hey, honey, come here." " This is Jim McLain and Mal Baxter." " Hi." " This is my wife." " How do you do?" " How about bringing us out some coffee?" " Sure." "Say, I forgot to tell you guys something important." "Remember the name I gave you of a guy that was Party treasurer when I was a member, Willie Nomaka?" "Yeah." "Well, I've been seeing this guy lately in all the grog shops down on River Street." "Boy, he's jugging it up good." "You know, drinking's strictly against Party rules." "When you got a big-wheel job, drunks is a very bad security risk." "Anyway, I figure this guy's ready to crack." "I've been through this." "After a while, you get it through your skull that all this Party line is a lot of con, and, sort of in self-defense, you give the bug juice a whirl." "If you could get this guy to talk, he'd give you a lot of names." "Any idea how we could get in touch with him?" "Not exactly." "He had a cover spot up on 16 River Street, but I don't think he lived there." "Well, thanks." "We'll see if we can find him, give him the once-over." "I wonder where the house is." "The odd numbers are on the other side." "What's the matter with you?" "I told you to put the ashcans on the left." "I can't keep opening the door every five..." "Well, you couldn't have come at a better time, mister." "I haven't had a vacancy since I don't know when." "I was looking for a fellow named Nomaka." "He doesn't happen to be home?" "Now, wouldn't that beat you?" "This was his room." "Four years he had it." "Do you know his new address?" "The people I work for are a little anxious to get in touch with him." "Oh, I'm afraid Mr. Nomaka won't be looking for work for quite a spell, poor man." "If you ask me, he's had it." "What happened to him?" "He's had a complete nervous breakdown, that's what." "And no wonder." "The way he's been the last couple of months, couldn't work, couldn't do anything." "That's too bad." "Not an hour ago his doctor himself was in this very room, packing all his stuff." "Who's his doctor?" "He didn't say what his name was, but I can tell a nut doctor when I see one." "I almost had to go to one myself once, about my ex-husband Joe." "My third, that is." "His folks said I drove him nuts." "I think he had a head start." "Sorry to hear it." "That's all right." "He wasn't up to specifications." "Hey, is this where Willie Nomaka lives?" " Yeah." " Here." "I come for his trunk." "Well, I don't know." "You don't know what?" "There's the note." "Where's the trunk?" "Listen." "Watch how you talk to me in my own house." "I ain't gonna talk to you at all." "Where's the trunk?" "Doesn't cost anything to be polite." "You're talking to a lady." "You can say that again." "You looking for a belt in the mouth?" "No, thanks." "I can't use it." "Well, then, keep your trap shut." "Look, I ain't got all day." "Where are you taking the trunk?" "I ought to know, to protect myself legal, in case Nomaka comes back and wants to know where it is." "Hey, Ed, go look in that room." "It must be in there." "Hey!" "You ought to tell the lady where you're taking the trunk." "Look, I told you not to mind my business." "Now, make it so's I don't have to tell you again." "You're pulling my shirt." "Well, I may pull your ears off." "This shirt cost four bucks." "I don't know." "I wonder, should I let them take it?" "After all, Nomaka wrote the note saying they could take it." "I think you should let them have it." "In there." "Thanks, mister, for lowering the boom on that character, but I've been running a sailor's boarding house for 10 years, and none of these here apes scare me." "I don't take any lip in my own house, either." "I'll be seeing you." "Why?" "Unfinished business." "I don't let it go by when some joker slugs me when I ain't looking." "You should keep looking." "Say, how tall are you?" "6'4"." "Seventy-six inches." "That's a lot of man." "I'd appreciate it if you'd call me at this number if you get any information on Nomaka." "Anything you say, 76." "Sure you don't want to rent that room?" "I'm already located." "Everything's included." "Laundry service, maid service, everything." "Oh, I'm paid up at this other place." "I wonder, does that wife of Nomaka's know he's sick?" "Wife?" "Well, he was married to some woman." "Then they got a divorce." "A couple of weeks ago he was on the long-distance phone, trying to call her on Molokai, the leper colony." "Is she a leper?" "No, I think she's a nurse over there." "Oh." "Thanks for the information." "So long." "Drop in any time." "Can I use your phone?" "It seems that my tough opponent had a long police record, and while Chief Liu was questioning him about a certain market robbery, the entire contents of Nomaka 's trunk were microscopicallYphotographed." "When theYpicked up their truck and left, naturally, there was a tail on them." "And the final destination of the trunk was the Okoli Malunu club, a new name for our list." "The next day was sunday." "While Mal was developing prints of our findings in the trunk," "I took nancy to the Pali." "She touted its beauty." "I guess it was beautiful." "I didn't look at it except as a background for her." "No matter where she stood she was going to be the foreground." "I've been thinking." "That's a good idea." "A girl studying to be a psychiatrist should think." "Has anything come up in your investigation to prove one way or another about Gelster being a Communist?" "Not so far." "Well, if he is, why?" "I don't know." "I've been trying to analyze him." "I think he has a frustration." "Oh?" "He's a good boss, but you never have the feeling that you'd like to do something for him outside of the line of duty." "You do and I'll beat his brains out." "Don't be an ape." "I mean he doesn't draw affection from people." "In your case, he'd better not." "Stop that!" "You know what I mean." "If he asked me to do a favor, the only reason I'd do it is because I don't wanna lose my job." "He doesn't attract people." "In fact, he doesn't even have the quality of repelling people." "That, at least, is an active emotion between individuals." "He just is a neuter as a personality." "I think he had to try and search for a cult of some kind." " Something to make him feel..." " Look, baby," "I don't know the "why." I've heard all the jive." "This one's a Commie because Mama won't tuck him in at night, that one because girls wouldn't welcome him with open arms." "I don't know the "why." The "what" I do know." "It's like when I was wearing the uniform." "I shot at the guy on the other side of the perimeter because he was the enemy." "Hey, we'd better get out of here or I'll start talking politics." "Hello, the house!" "Hi." "Say, Jim," "I've got something here I want you to take a look at." "What?" "I haven't developed all the stuff yet, but there's something funny here." "Ten policies, all made out to Juan Garcia." "And on every one of them, the beneficiary's last name is a single letter." "Yeah, that is strange." "If a fellow was going to take $10,000 worth of insurance, generally, he'd take one policy, not 10." "Well, we'd better check it." "Yeah." "At last, we had something to send to Washington, where they went through the mill that grinds so very small and not so very slow." "LowrY to McLain." "Urgent." "Examination, fraudulent insurance policies, establishes 10 secret Communist agents, gathered Honolulu." "Objective unknown." "Press investigation." "Check the rest of that list at the sanatorium." "Kalaupapa, a small, completely isolated peninsula jutting out from the sheer cliffs of Molokai." "Kalaupapa, the ancient leper colony." "lonely, desolate, no bars, but escape-proof." "I wasn't too happy about this angle of the investigation." "frankly, leprosy scared me." "Scares most people, I guess." "I still remember when we were kids and my mother used to read the Bible to us." "The chill that ran up and down backs when she said the ancient word "leper."" " Mr. McLain?" " Yes." "I was sent to guide you to the hospital." "Thank you." " Mrs. Nomaka?" " Yes." "I'm Jim McLain, the House Un-American Activities..." "Oh, yes, Dr. Peterson told me about you." "I'd like to talk about Willie Nomaka." "He's in trouble?" "Well, I don't know." "He seems to have vanished." "Willie was my husband." "We've been divorced for some years." "Please, sit down." "Let me explain." "After being a hard-working, dedicated Communist for almost 11 years," "I came to my senses and recognized Communism for what it is." "It's a vast conspiracy to enslave the common man." "Excuse me." "Are those the inmates' babies?" "Yes." "They're taken from the mothers immediately on delivery, and brought here." "That's tough." "At least they may see them." "It's much worse later." "At six months of age, the babies are removed to the mainland." "It may seem hard to the parents, but it's really much better for the babies." "Let me resume." "I left the Party, wrote a full account of my past activities and association to the FBI and came here." "I thought, I suppose, that I might atone for the injury I had done humanity by helping these unfortunates." "When I left the Party, I could not persuade Willie to accompany me." "So, we separated." "You haven't seen him since?" "Never." "Last week he telephoned me." "Radiophone, you know." "The connection was bad." "He made little sense." "A few days later I received a most incoherent letter from him, in which he says he is returning to the religion of his childhood." "I have it here." "You will see, he accuses himself, using the Japanese word kYodai-goroshi, which is fratricide." "A man who murders his brother." "Yes, he calls himself that." "He is obviously deranged." "He has no brother." "I know his family well, since infancy." "He's an only child." "Well, have you any idea what he meant by this?" "None." "Did you answer his letter?" "No." "Like any other who commits a crime against humanity, he will have to find his own way back into the community of men." "I would not lift a hand to help any conspirator, any more than I would extend a helping hand to a..." "I was going to say leper, but that, of course, is ridiculous." "Well, thank you, Mrs. Nomaka." "I'm sorry I had to bother you." "Oh, Mr. McLain... lf, in the course of your duty, you are forced to arrest Willie, please remember, he is suffering great torment of soul." "I recognize his predicament as identical with my own in the past." "I have no control over this, Mrs. Nomaka." "I'm just an investigator." "But if I see Willie, I'll tell him I met a splendid lady who wishes him well." "Jim..." "This is the Reverend Ito." "He says that our man, Nomaka, was here, all right." "He was in a very disturbed state of mind." "He came in, placed many prayer papers on the altar and kept raving about he'd murdered his brother." "It was hard to tell whether or not he was stating the truth because the Reverend Father tried to question him, he screamed he had no brother and ran away." "Well, was that the last he saw him?" "That's the last time he saw him." "Thank you." "Mal." "The Chief wants to talk to you." "644 to No. 1. 644 to No. 1." "Come in." "Mal, in checking Dr. Gelster's phone bill we find toll charges to a Sanford Sanitarium." "Your man Nomaka might be there." "We checked it." "He wasn't there, and they weren't cooperative." "Take officer Jones with you this time." "He has a search warrant." "they'll cooperate." "Right." "644 to No. 1." "Check." "Here 6-3-4-8." "Come on, Jonesy." " Remember me?" " Yeah." "Well, I'm going to ask you just once more." "Do you have a patient named Nomaka?" "No." "Do you have that man?" "I've got a search warrant." "Why, sure." "We have this man." "Calls himself Shige." "These drunks always hide under a phony name." "Here, follow me." "This is the man, isn't it?" "Yeah, that's him." "I don't get this character for a drunk." "Looks more like he's on junk." "He makes no sense." "Nomaka, you're among friends." "Where's your telephone?" "Give me the police department, Chief Liu." "Hey, Jack, we'd just as soon have no trouble." "We're in business, you know." "You want to stay in business?" " Yes, sir." " Cooperate." "Hello, Chief." "Yeah, we found him." "Can you send an ambulance over to pick him up?" "All right." "Thanks." "We had Nomaka, but between nervous breakdown and the injections his comrades had given him," "Nomaka was of no use to us." "Say, by the way, I want you to meet Ed White." "I've been trying to bring him along to take my place as business agent when I leave next month." "I got a pretty good setup on the mainland, but I want to make sure I leave this outfit in the hands of guys that are on our team." "See, there he is now." "Hey, get out of the truck." "You can't do it." "The hiring hall sent me down here with a gang." "Well, I'm sending you back." "You're sending me back because you think I'm a Commie?" "I wouldn't send you back because you're a Commie." "Then 80 jerks from here and there would get together and call a meeting about your civil rights." "I won't even say you're a Commie." "I'll just say you loose-Ioaded a sling a couple of months ago and a load of radar equipment was smashed." "Accident." "Well, I don't like accidents on my loading gang." "So get out of the area." "Maybe you'd like to make me." "Cinch." "Hey, mac." "You ain't man enough to do it by yourself." "Look, mister, if I belt you, you could sue the company." "But if you want to come down to Joe's after dinner, we can talk about this thing a little more, and my time is my own." "Hey, Whitey." "McLain and Baxter, House Un-American Activities Committee." "You fellows are doing a good job." "Getting things pretty well cleaned up." "Well, we'd like to get together with you and let you give us the lowdown on what's going on." "Sure, you can have anything we got, hey, Max?" "Sure, anything." "About the only tip I can give you are the names of some of these parliamentary pirates." "Parliamentary pirates?" "Yeah, those talkative characters who babble for hours at a meeting so the decent guys go home before a vote's called." "Come on in the office." "Mr. McLain?" "My name is Henried, Robert Henried." " Mrs. Vallon." " How do you do, Mrs. Vallon?" "Mr. McLain, I'm a writer." "I don't suppose you've ever read any of my works." "I write mostly historical and research treatises." "My purpose in coming here today is to give you some information on the Communist Party." "I'll take a walk along the beach." "Don't leave on my account, Mrs. Vallon." "This information will become public knowledge within a very few days, just as soon as my next book reaches the stands." "Won't you sit down?" "Thank you, no." "I'm rather pressed for time." "As a matter of fact, what I have to say will take just a very few minutes." "Mr. McLain, 10 years ago I joined the Communist Party, merely to see it firsthand and observe its operation." "When I found it unworkable, my scholar's interest stopped, but I maintained the contacts I had created during my time of study." "As I told Stalin at our last meeting, the parallel between his organization and the Venetian dictatorships of the 16th century is most unusual." "May I have a glass of that lemonade, please?" "You saw Stalin?" "Oh, my dear fellow, scads of times." "As a matter of fact, our last conversation terminated in a rather frightful quarrel." "You see, I had flown over in a new jet plane of my own design to demonstrate that his operation must fail for the same reason that Genghis Khan failed." "This is excellent lemonade." "May I pour you a glass, Mrs. Vallon?" "No, thanks." "He's a very stubborn man, Stalin." "Finally, I had to threaten him with my new secret weapon." "You know, this lemonade tastes of lemons." "I must say, I heartily approve of that." "It's always a great mistake to use oranges when making lemonade." "You say you threatened him?" "Oh, yes." "He was frightfully upset, as a matter of fact." "You see, my new secret weapon, well, it will make the atomic bomb an obsolete nothing." "A mere child's plaything." "It will, incidentally, eliminate any possibility of future wars." "And I reveal this to you, Mr. McLain, only because you have a certain kind of face." "You have a face that I can read like a book." "It tells me that though you might do a stupid or thoughtless thing, you could never be mean enough to snitch about as important a thing as my secret weapon, if you first crossed your heart and took a Boy Scout's oath not to." "How will it affect people?" "To my best judgment, my weapon, very likely, may destroy the entire human race, but, of course, one can't have everything, can one, young lady?" "Well, how does it work?" "Well, in its first phase it makes everybody look alike." "Don't misunderstand me, Mrs. Vallon." "I don't mean that everybody will look alike." "I mean that all the men will look alike and all the women will look alike." "And now that I have met you, Mrs. Vallon, I think it would be most advisable if the female half of the world's population looked exactly as you do." "This will stop wars?" "Well, my dear fellow, how can you possibly fight with someone if he looks exactly as you do?"