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Air. Vishinsky:
When You Go Home - You Can Tell Your
People These Truths About the U.S. A.
You could do it in Pravda, which means truth. You could
use Radio Moscow to tell them. You could tell it to your
people who are not members of your Communist party but
who are owned, body and soul, by your party.
You could tell your people that we Americans are not
seeking war and are not warmongers. We hate war. We want
peace. We want the whole world to have the opportunities
and freedom upon which lasting peace can be brought to all
nations. You know that.
You could explan that we are not a capitalistic monopoly.
Tell your people that our railroads, telephones, radios, air
lines, factories, stores, mines and forests are not owned by
government but that they are owned by the people as private
citizens. You could tell them that millions—and many more
millions— of the people’s dollars are invested in our rail
road, automobile and our steel industries—and all other in
dustries—all of which came out of the savings of the people.
You could tell your people that we are not a capitalistic
nation—but that your Russia today is the only complete
capitalistic nation on earth. It owns everything, including the
people and the profits the people could make on their own
labor.
We Own It
In America, the people own everything—including the gov
ernment. In the U.S.S.R. the government owns everything—
including the people.
Tell the Russian people that in America, through the in
dustrial knowhow, we have turned luxuries into mass pro
duction within the reach of everybody. Explain that tele
phones, bathtubs, gas stoves, radios, refrigerators, electric
light, vacuum cleaners, and automobiles are not luxuries in
America. Tell them we have over 80% of all the automobiles
in the world—and they are owned—not by the rich— they are
owned by the people. They are the capitalists. Every bit of
property our people own is owned because they have saved
money out of the greatest earnings ever earned by any
people. All because of the free competitive system, made pos
sible by liberty.
Tell your people about our courts of justice. Explain our
jury system by which 12 of our equals decide on the guilt or
innocence of any on charged and brought to the bar. We do
not have judges who decide on guilt or innocence. We the
people decide. The judge pronounces sentence. We elect the
judges.
Borrow American
Also tell your people that we sent to your country $11,500,
000.000 of lend-lease war material to win your war over Nazi
Germany, your former ally, who turned on you. Marshal
Stalin said that the war would have been lost without the pro
ductivity of America. You might tell your people that all the
material and food sent to you was produced by America in
addition to what we needed to win our own war and help
England win hers.
Tell your people how much greater American production
is than that of Russia. But, tell them why. The secret is
U.S.A. production is free and every producer is free. Explain
how every family in America is self-regulated and runs itself
better than you of the inner circle run all of the Russians
from the Kremlin.
Explain, Mr. Vishinsky, that in the U.S.A. every man. wo
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man, and child has the right to progress is aiuomaucd y
given liberty and freedom—can pick out any educational op
portunity they want, the job the)’ want, and decide, personall) ,
what they want to be.
No Serfs, We
Tell them about our Constitution and how if some people
want something which is not constitutional, there must be
submitted a proposed amendment so that all may vote and
only by two-thirds of the legislatures of the State can such
amendment become law. No person, in or out of government,
can issue an order in defiance of the Constitution. 1 ell them
America believes in the rights of man and that we make the
State—a servant of the people. That is just the opposite of
the Russian communistic system where man is nothing and
the State is everything, the sole possessor of liberty and free
dom.
Tell your people the U.S.A. is a Republic. 1 hat the same
legal rules which enable us to continue as a Republic also
enable our businesses to continue with constant change and
modification. Would you tell them that America has achieved
the highest living standard—the greatest tolerance, the truest
charity—all because of giving liberty and freedom to all
people. Tell your people that we in America regard the police
state as a horror, as a crime against the body and soul of man.
Tell your people that we resent the charges that we are a
warmongering people. It is not only unkind and uncalled for—
but a malicious statement.
You Could Tell 'Em
Mr. Vishinsky, if you were a citizen of the U.S.A. and re
turned from visiting Russia, you could state publicly what
you discovered. You could say it in print, by radio—even in
moving pictures. You would have that right as an American
citizen. You are one of the big men of the U.S.S.R. Can you
go home and tell the truth?
As a private citizen of the U.S.A., I have freedom to make
this statement in public.print as often as I please. Recently, I
was invited to make a radio broadcast. I will be glad to send it
to you. It is something about our country and the freedom
of every individual in it. Would you like to read it? I can send
it through the U.S. mail. Any citizen can have it.
That is freedom, Mr. Vishinsky. That is the by-product—
just one of the by-products—of the most priceless secret that
you could carry back to Russia. The secret is the system by
which the U.S.A. has made progress. A system of liberty and
freedom for the individual. If you would see your own country
move fast into a great productive nation of happy people, set
your people free. Take capitalism out of the hands of your
government and put it in the hands of your people. Capital
ism then ceases to be what you have called it, and becomes
the secret by which common wealth is created for all the
people.
Not a single word of this message has a double meaning,
we owe a debt of gratitude to those who established our way
of life and only by preserving and spreading the dignity of
man—the rights of freedom—can we pay that debt.
You Can Answer Here
\ ou can answer this message, Air. A ishinsky, in this same
newspaper for the same price I pay for it. You have unlimited
funds at your command. AA’hy, you are the agent of the great
est capitalistic power on earth! I am just an American citizen,
one of the millions you have referred to as capitalists.
A\ e want to continue to own our own country and our
government and to hold inviolate liberty and freedom and
preserve the dignity of mankind.
AA’e in America believe in the spiritual as well as the ma
terial side of life. They must go hand-in-hand. AVe realize
we cannot abolish nature, the handmaiden of God. Nor can
we or any other country control nature—the flood_the ebb
tides—or the changes of season. Only God controls that and
makes the seed that creates your harvest. Nature insists that
man be free in order that he may reach his highest possible
position and be of service to his fellowmen—not to any state.
AVhen you return to your country, Air. Vishinsky, why
don t you tell your people about our way of life in America
-AN hen peace shall once more be acclaimed, the work of the
world will have begun.”
E.F. HUTTON
AA estbury, L.I.
(Reprinted in the Emerald and elsewhere by individuals who believe
it carries a forthright statement of American principles, that should
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Spinning
PlatteM
With MICHAEL CALLAHAN
With the holidays just a hop,
skip, and five finals away, we
load this week's platter with the -
top 147 Christmas releases. Pick
ing the better buys out of the an
nual flood of yule records, we •*
came up with four albums and
one single, all styled to complete
the late Christmas shopping list. '
Number one on any Christmas
carol parade is Decca’s seasonal
ly popular waxed in 1943, Cros
by's collection has sold up into
the million-and-a-half brackets
and seems slated to go on paying
his income taxes for many an
other year. Packaged in “Merry ,
Christmas” are his best-known
holiday requests: “Silent Night,”
“Adeste Fideles,” “White Christ- -
mas,” “God Rest Ye, Merry Gen
tlemen,” “Faith of Our Fathers,"
and the war-inspired “I'll Be *
Home for Christmas.”
These carols are sung in the
straight, sincere manner that
made Bing’s “White Christmas” >
the greatest all-timer of them all.
The Andrews Sisters spice the
collection when they join der Bin
gle in “Santa Claus Is Coming to
Town” and “Jingle Bells.” We
rate this as easily the most pop
ular Christmas gift album ever '
released. i
Victor’s Set
For a complete and definitive
collection of Christmas music we
pick Victor’s “Christmas Hymns >
and Carols,” where no less than
25 different selections are packed
into eight record-sides. This of- •*
fering features the Victor Chor
ale under Director Robert Shaw,
whose superb interpretation of
Bach’s “B-Minor Mass” this sum- '
mer won even Toscannini’s praise. _
Presented in “Christmas Hymns
and Carols” are such standards
as “Joy to the World,” “It Came -
Upon a Midnight Clear,” “Silent
Night,” “O Little Town of Beth
lehem,” “We Three Kings,” and '
“Angels We Have Heard on
High,” the great “Gloria” hymn. _
Among the less familiar carols
included are “I Wonder as I Wan- „
der,” “My Dancing Day,” "Echo
Hymn,” and the 17th Century
Welch round, “Deck the Halls.’’-~
We would advise careful thought
before buying this comprehensive
album, so many carols are includ- -
ed that there is room for only a
short, uninspiring arrangement of
each. The choral group itself is _
large and fairly well balanced,
although slightly heavy on so
prano voices. We felt this might -
better have been issued as a larg
er album or even as two separate
collections, to give room for ”
warmer and more impressive ■
treatments.
New Crooner
Vic Damone, one of the most
promising of the young postwar
crooners, has given a truly superb -
performance on a single of “Silent
Night" and Bach-Gounod’s “Ave
Maria." Supported by the 40
voice Mercury chorale, Damone’s
light but sturdy voice is sharp „■
and clear above a beautifully- .
conducted string orchestra. Al
though issued by a smaller re
cording company, Damone’s rec- -
ord is equal to some of Crosby’s .
best, and has all the merits of a _
surprise hit of the season.
“The Night Before Christmas”
is the latest collection by Fred
Waring and his Pennsylvanias,
and it falls far short of their us- *
ual top-notch issues. Waring's ar- «
rangements are flat and lifeless .
and not even such beautiful car- -
ols as "Silent Night,” “Beautiful -
Savior," “Oh. Holy Night," and ■■
“The First Noel” could inspire his -
glee club out of its doldrums.
Only the most loyal Waring fan _
will rave over this one.
A modest little album released '*
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