_] It had no significance to you personally,
Ted.--It's all of us. All of us who are in the army.
TED. In the army? What are you talking about? We aren't in any
army. We wouldn't go in. Why, half the men you meet say that in a
war they'd be conscientious objectors. The jails wouldn't hold
them.
MARTIN. But the ditches will.
TED. But I tell you ...
MARTIN. They jailed conscientious objectors in the last war. This
time they will shoot them.
TED. Why are you Communists so afraid of war?
MARTIN. We know what starts it.--It's the army, Ted, that makes
war.
TED. But this country hasn't a big standing army.
MARTIN. There are ten millions in it.
TED. You mean the unemployed?
MARTIN. That's the army that makes war these days.
TED. You radicals always say that. I don't agree with you--except
about war. I think you are right about that.
MARTIN. Which is why the American Legion wants to exterminate us.
TED. They want war. But you want revolution. You are against war
and for revolution. That's silly. Just a different kind of war.
You're both wrong. There's no sense in any of you.
MARTIN. That's right. The business men have all the sense. They
know that an army in rags is more dangerous to them than an army in
uniform. So we will wear uniforms. I just tried yours on to see how
it would fit you.
TED. [_Picks up the two halves out of basket and puts them together
and stares at it.
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