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Proclaim Liberty
Author: Gilbert Seldes

PROCLAIM LIBERTY To TECE CHILDREN who will have to live in the world we are making ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks are given to the Macmillan Company for their permission to quote several paragraphs from Arthur Koestlers Darkness at Noon in my first chapter. The Grand Strategy by H. A. Sargeaunt and Geoffrey West, referred to in chapter two, is publishe... more »d by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. G. S. Contents PAGE CHAPTER i TOTAL VICTORY 13 CHAPTER ii STRATEGY FOR THE CITIZEN 29 CHAPTER m UNITED . . . . 44 CHAPTER iv THE STRATEGY OF TRUTH 61 CHAPTER v THE FORGOTTEN DOCUMENT 77 CHAPTER vi THE POPULATION OF THESE STATES 92 CHAPTER vii ADDRESS TO EUROPE 111 CHAPTER vni THE SCIENCE OF SHORT WAVE 119 CHAPTER ix DEFINITION OF AMERICA 129 CHAPTER x POPULARITY AND POLITICS 156 CHAPTER xi THE TOOLS OF DEMOCRACY 163 CHAPTER xn DEMOCRATIC CONTROL 170 CHAPTER xni THE LIBERTY BELL 199 PROCLAIM LIBERTY CHAPTER I Total Victory THE PERIL WE ARE IN TODAY IS THIS For the first time since we became a nation, a power exists strong enough to destroy us. This book is about the strength we have to destroy our enemies where it lies, what hinders it, how we can use it. It is not about munitions, but about men and women it deals with the unity we have to create, the victory we have to win it deals with the character of America, what it has been and is and will be. And since character is destiny, this book is about the destiny of America. The next few pages are in the nature of counter-propaganda. With the best of motives, and the worst results, Americans for months after December 7, 1941, said that Pearl Harbor was a costly blessing because it united all Americans and made us understand why the war was inevitable. A fifty-mile bus trip outside of New York perhaps even a subway ride within its borders would have proved both of these state ments blandly and dangerously false. American unity could not be made in Japan like most other imports from that country, it was a cheap imitation, lasting a short time, and costly in the long run and recognition of the nature of the war can never come as the result of anything but a realistic analysis of our own purposes as well as those of our enemies. What follows is, obviously, the work of a citizen, not a specialist. For some twenty years I have observed the sources of American unity and dispersion during the past fifteen years my stake in the future of American liberty has been the most important thing in my life, as it is the most impor tant thing in the life of anyone whose children will live in the world we are now creating. I am therefore not writing 13 14 PROCLAIM LIBERTY frivolously, or merely to testify to my devotion I am writing to persuade - to uncover sources of strength which others may have overlooked, to create new weapons, to stir new thoughts. If I thought the war for freedom could be won by writing lies, I would write lies. I am afraid the war will be lost if we do not face the truth, so I write what I believe to be true about America about its past and present and future, meaning its history and character and destiny but mostly about the present, with only a glance at our forgotten past, and a dedaration of faith in the future which is, I hope, the inevitable result of our victory. We know the name and character of our enemy the Axis but after months of war we are not entirely convinced that it intends to destroy us because we do not see why it has to destroy us. Destroy not defeat. The desperate war we are fighting is still taken as a gigantic maneuvre obviously the Axis wants to win battles and dictate peace terms. We still use these phrases of 1918, unaware that the purpose of Axis war is not defeat of an enemy, but destruction of his national life...

ISBN-13: 9781406747041
ISBN-10: 1406747041
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Owens Press
Book Type: Paperback
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