Howdy ! ...
Posted on 10/17/2003 9:44:42 AM PDT by Weimdog
Read some excerpts from his book, U.S.A.
It is a trilogy of commie/socialist pap!
If I had the time right now, I would post some of it. Artfully written, I will give him that... but then, isn't most of that commie pap written that way? The Devil hiss-self always did have a way with words. Just ask Eve.
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Howdy ! ...
Hmmmm... Having rethought that rather extreme statement about our WWII ally, please permit me to modify it:
It's a wonder, and a damn shame, Churchill didn't have him taken out and shot.
More from the Mag:
"The first winter of peace holds Europe in a deathly grip of cold, hunger and hopelessness. In the words of the London Sunday Observer: “Europe is threatened by a catastrophe this winter which has no precedent since the Black Death of 1348.”
"These are still more than 25,000,000 homeless people milling about Europe. In Warsaw nearly 1,000,000 live in holes in the ground. Six million building were destroyed in Russia. Rumania has her worst drought of 50 years, and in Greece fuel supplies are terribly low because the Nazis, during their occupation, decimated the forests. In Italy the wheat harvest, which was a meager 3,450,000 tons in 1944, fell to an unendurable 1,304,000 tons in 1945. In France, food consumption per day averages 1,800 calories as compared with 3,000 calories in the U.S.
Germany is sinking even below the level of the countries she victimized. The German people are still better clothed than most of Europe because during the war they took the best of Europe’s clothing. But their food supply is below subsistence level. In the American zone they beg for the privilege of scraping U.S. army garbage cans. Infant mortality is already so high that a Berlin Quaker, quoted in the British press, predicted. “No child born in Germany in 1945 will survive. Only half the children aged less than 3 years will survive.”
"On Germany, which plunged the Continent into its misery, falls the blame for its own plight and the plight of all Europe. But if this winter proves worse even than the war years, blame will fall on the victor nations. Some Europeans blame Russia for callousness to misery in eastern Europe. But some also blame America because they expected so much more from her. On the following pages the distinguished novelist John Dos Passos, who has been abroad as LIFE correspondent, reports on Europe’s suffering and what it means for America.
Please pass this to HH!
The ones who grew up in the Russian sectors talked about being frightened and terrorized.
I really don't understand the Americans who want America to look like the villain in any international dispute. There are, of course, some foreigners who would agree, but not all.
We could always argue about which viewpoint makes life better for the many, but the anti-Americans seem to think purity of intention matters more than quality of life for the masses.
I have forwarded this EXCELLENT thread to Hugh at:hhewitt@hughhewitt.com
BTW, you attribute InstaPundit.com, but the site which originally posted the article is Jessica's Well, "The Community Web Log on Media, Government, and Politics in Midland, Texas Home of George & Laura Bush, General Tommy Franks....AND Wahoo McDaniel."From http://www.jessicaswell.com/MT/archives/000872.html:
I really don't know what to make of this. I guess things never change and that there is nothing new in the world. Below are two links to two articles from the January 7, 1946 issue of Life magazine.
Link to Article One ::::: Link to Article Two
Maybe the author of the main article, John Dos Passos, was the Robert Fisk of his day. Maybe Henry Luce had it in for Harry Truman. This is a discussion for more knowledgeable people than me. But what I really wasn't ready for in an article in Life Magazine six months after the end of World War II was a line such as this:
"We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease."There are more like it. And it is all so eerily familiar. As Dr. Reynolds says, "Read the whole thing."
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See www.instapundit.com:
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE: And media negativity is one of them, apparently. This post from Jessica's Well on 1946 coverage of Europe is priceless:
AMERICANS ARE LOSING THE VICTORY IN EUROPE
Destitute Nations Feel the U.S. Has Failed Them
Then there's this: "We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease." Read the whole thing.
This must be from his early years.
It seems Dos Passos had broken with the left before this was written, having been disillusioned with Soviet Communism during the Spanish Civil War:
"Although he espoused the bohemian way of life, he had many non-bohemian friends. He and his wife often cruised the Mediterranean with the Murphys and found other elite oases of peace to refresh themselves from time to time. In 1936, The Spanish Civil War began. During this War, he went to Spain to make a documentary of the Loyalist actions, using Ernest Hemingway as narrator of the film. Angered by the dominating role the Russian communists were playing in the Loyalists side, Dos Passos grew even more disillusioned with communism. He quit the film over disputes with the Russian communists. His long-time and close friendship with Hemingway ended bitterly in an argument, as they found themselves on opposite sides of this dispute. After returning to the US, Dos Passos broke with the political left. He wrote a novel, Adventures of a Young Man, denunciating communism and criticizing the political Leftists."
The book mentioned, Adventures, was published in 1939.
A T-shirt for sale by, of all people, General Tommy Franks' first cousin, who attended the Rally.
President Bush and General Franks are from Midland, Texas.
Would that make them the general's spouse, brother/sister in law, mother/father, uncle/aunt?
Mark Steyn: General Cool
Great Steyn profile on Tommy Franks, a Wynnwood, Oklahoman raised in Midland, Texas ! The Texas College mentioned is The University of Texas at Arlington. My Alma Mater.
See my #59. You have to take everything on the internet with more than a few grains of salt, but Dos Passos critizing the Soviet Union more harshly than the United States really set off alarms.
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