““For two months I did attend the American services and I heard the Thanksgiving declaration of the American President read, and in the free discussions after the service I listened with amazement to excerpts from the speeches of American senators, or the editorials from some great newspaper. The freedom of language was almost shocking to me. In Germany we had so long been walled in by fear we had learned to set so close a guard upon our tongues that it was actually frightening to hear the openness of uncensored speech.””
