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Timebinder, v. 1, issue 3, 1945
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fear of Russia, with a nostalgia for the "old, bold days of Bismarck" -- a world that has vanished forever .... and then there must be some of the old Clivedon crowd kicking around -- those who would fling honor to the winds to stop Russia by treating with Germany .... and the Reds who would support Hitler in order to be rid of the British aristocracy .... yes, there must be many "rationalistic" objectors. And another point which Mrs. Newton failed to cover, so it seems to me, is the fact that ALL OF US, BASICALLY, ARE "OBJECTORS" TO WAR -- surely the soldier who fights solely for glory and pure nationalism is an anachronism? And don't most of us desire peace and aren't we staying on the job with the hope that the men meeting here in San Francisco will lay the foundation for that peace? And speaking of SanFrancisco, Everett, you know it is quite a poignant feeling to be here in this city while all the world sits down in Conference -- one of the most unforgettable experiences in my brief career. Last Saturday I went down to the Civic Auditorium for the first of the United Nations Symphony Concerts - and here, if you don't mind, are a few .... IMPRESSION OF A CONCERT: SAN FRANCISCO 1945 The Civic Auditorium of SanFrancisco bears eloquent witness to an interesting fact about that city -- namely, that the arts here are patronized by the rank and file as well as by the local aristocracy. Most of the time the great edifice is comfortably filled -- and Monteux, Paderewski, and countless other great artists have, in here, electrified John Q. Public as well as the "peerage". But tonight the great hall is jammed with humanity in a sense that it never has been before. For down in the orchestra, in specially constructed boxes, several score of men and women sit, and are scanned avidly by innumerable opera glasses and unaided human eyes. For these people are the delegates of forty-six United Nations. They have been working prodigiously for a plan of collective action, and came here in the vain hope of relaxation. Folly indeed, for the burdens of the world are inescapable -- and what peace may a man know whose life is lived like that of an inhabitant of the aquarium -- under the constant scrutiny of the multitudes -- with the added fact that spectators at acquaria are not dependent upon the finny denizens for the future hope of the planet -- nor would the creatures of the sea merit the accusing denunciations of the millions of the United Nationals dead if the 20
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fear of Russia, with a nostalgia for the "old, bold days of Bismarck" -- a world that has vanished forever .... and then there must be some of the old Clivedon crowd kicking around -- those who would fling honor to the winds to stop Russia by treating with Germany .... and the Reds who would support Hitler in order to be rid of the British aristocracy .... yes, there must be many "rationalistic" objectors. And another point which Mrs. Newton failed to cover, so it seems to me, is the fact that ALL OF US, BASICALLY, ARE "OBJECTORS" TO WAR -- surely the soldier who fights solely for glory and pure nationalism is an anachronism? And don't most of us desire peace and aren't we staying on the job with the hope that the men meeting here in San Francisco will lay the foundation for that peace? And speaking of SanFrancisco, Everett, you know it is quite a poignant feeling to be here in this city while all the world sits down in Conference -- one of the most unforgettable experiences in my brief career. Last Saturday I went down to the Civic Auditorium for the first of the United Nations Symphony Concerts - and here, if you don't mind, are a few .... IMPRESSION OF A CONCERT: SAN FRANCISCO 1945 The Civic Auditorium of SanFrancisco bears eloquent witness to an interesting fact about that city -- namely, that the arts here are patronized by the rank and file as well as by the local aristocracy. Most of the time the great edifice is comfortably filled -- and Monteux, Paderewski, and countless other great artists have, in here, electrified John Q. Public as well as the "peerage". But tonight the great hall is jammed with humanity in a sense that it never has been before. For down in the orchestra, in specially constructed boxes, several score of men and women sit, and are scanned avidly by innumerable opera glasses and unaided human eyes. For these people are the delegates of forty-six United Nations. They have been working prodigiously for a plan of collective action, and came here in the vain hope of relaxation. Folly indeed, for the burdens of the world are inescapable -- and what peace may a man know whose life is lived like that of an inhabitant of the aquarium -- under the constant scrutiny of the multitudes -- with the added fact that spectators at acquaria are not dependent upon the finny denizens for the future hope of the planet -- nor would the creatures of the sea merit the accusing denunciations of the millions of the United Nationals dead if the 20
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