Category: History - American

Proclaim Liberty!

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,...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER XII

The shape of this war was created in dark back rooms of cheap saloons, in a lodging house in Geneva, in several prison cells, in small half secret meetings, up back flights of s...

9. CHAPTER IX

We have two prodigious victories to gain--the war and the world after the war. The chatter about not "defining war aims" because specific aims are bound to disturb us, is danger...

6. CHAPTER VI

In the back of our minds we have an image labeled "the immigrant"; and it is never like ourselves. The image has changed from generation to generation, but it has never been acc...

4. CHAPTER IV

The consequences of building on a unity which does not exist are serious. We have discovered that all war is total war; we have also found that while our enemies lie to us, they...

3. CHAPTER III

When I began to write this book the unity "made in Japan" was beginning to wear thin; when I finished people were slowly accustoming themselves to a new question: they did not k...

1. CHAPTER I

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 w...

2. CHAPTER II

There is a tendency at this moment to consider Hitler a master strategist, master psychologist, master statesman. His analysis of democracy, however, leaves something unsaid, an...

5. CHAPTER V

To distract attention, to put people's minds on useless or bewildering projects is a bit of sabotage, in a total war. It is well enough to divert people, for a moment, so that t...

8. CHAPTER VIII

What we say to Europe is to be an incitement to revolution, a promise of liberation, a hope of a decent, orderly, comfortable living, in freedom; but it must be as hard and real...

7. CHAPTER VII

Our first word was to the people of Europe; the Declaration of Independence tried to incite the British people against their own Parliament; and the "decent respect to the opini...

11. CHAPTER XI

The greatest tools are civil liberties which we have been considering as "rights" or "privileges". The right to free speech is a great one; free speech probably was originally i...

10. CHAPTER X

In the United States every week 34 million families listen on an average four hours a day to the radio; 90 million individual movie admissions are bought; 16 million men and wom...

13. CHAPTER XIII

Above all things our function is to proclaim liberty, to proclaim it as the soil on which we grow and as the air we breathe, to make the world understand that liberty is what we...