THE VOICE OF AMERICA
Sir,-I have read with mixed feelings the article entitled "The Voice of America" in The Listener of June 29. To me it seems to be either very inept or else a dangerous form of propaganda. The introduction claims that the page "récords . . . the significant fact ... that democracy in these United States is still of the people and by the people," yet there is no attempt to evaluate the interesting quotations, expressing often the laudable sentiments of individuals, with the political history of the United States. The introduction also claims that the war which began 175 years ago was to determine whether a nation "dedicated to the proposition that all imen are created equal" could endure, I should like to quote from C. M. Andrews, Farnam Professor of History in Yale University, in The Colonial Background
of the American Revolution: "The colonists were not contending for democfacy, popular government or universal suffrage. . . The War of Independence was not fought to make even America safe for democracy. With independence won democracy would come in America’s own good time, just as it would have come had the colonies remained attached to Great Britain." . Returning, to the, article, I have long followed ‘the advice it contains, and "nor trust the editorials in picture weeklies" nor those in any other publication.
G. F. T.
JONES
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 5
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225THE VOICE OF AMERICA New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 5
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