Economically free countries enjoy decentralized power, whereas the power in economically unfree countries is centralized.

A beautiful, fine albatross cloth in itself appropriate, but betrimmed with pipings of satin and lace.

You need to lengthen the story if you want to have it published.

Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government.