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Friday, April 16, 1954
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Thirteen
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(Reprinted from the January
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fan of the Anti-Defamation
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Eves, or escapist musicals.
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From Dr. and Mrs. Irving Zabner
There is also a sound folk rea
son for television’s sudden redis
covery of Lt. Philip Nolan, the
Mon Without a Country. In modern
uress, in period costume and in
adaptation, the networks have
played with the plot, working it
and reworking it, and finding a
ready public response.
No need to dig too deeply to
find the reason. Our current con
cern with the meaning of loyalty,
of patriotism and of pride in
America is all too obvious. It cuts
deeply into our minds and our
emotional lives.
We seem to have won a great
moral victory in recent days in
Korea. So many thousands of the
men, Korean and Chinese, whom
we captured during the fighting,
have chosen the free world as
against the Iron Curtain, democ
racy as against communism.
Our side lost 21.
How like those war bulletins
which reported a highly successful
attack upon the enemy “at the
cost of only one of our planes.”
One fine, young American life
snuffed out like a statistic. Only
one family to shed tears while the
rest of us counted our victories.
So with these 21 young men. In
the fight for the minds of men,
we are ^statistically triumphant:
21 lost, thousands won. But there
are a lot of us who cannot make
peace with the loss. These 21 con
temporary Lt. Nolans shake us to
the depths. The defeat is not alone
theirs; it is ours. Somehow we
failed to give them that inner
strength, that understanding of
America, which would have helped
them make the right choice when
the chips were down.
At the ADL’s Freedom Forum,
the love of this land engaged the
thoughts of the keynote speaker,
poet Archibald MacLeish, who
pleaded that as a focal point of
our lives we were substituting
hate of a rival ideology for love
of our own. President Eisenhower,
probing into the reasons why we
love our land, said it was not our
rich acres or our high productivity,
but the fact that America stood
for the dignity and freedom of
man.
Was this message lost on the
21? Did they somehow reach
fighting men’s age without having
absorbed these ideas and this
understanding of the meaning of
America? Seemingly that’s true.
Take a second look at these
youngsters. Most appear to have
come from underprivileged areas
of the country, their schooling
limited, their young lives frus
trated. No city slickers these.
They were not exposed to the ur
ban influences where communism,
according to the know-nothings, is
rife. Most came from areas of the
country where communism has
made no impact—where indeed
very few ideas of vibrant democ
racy are fully understood. They
never had a real opportunity to
learn why they should love Amer
ica. And so the first time a choice
was placed before them, they did
not have the inner strength or the
basic knowledge to resist the lies
of communism.
We lost these 21 skirmishes not
so much in the prison stockades
of Korea, but here at home. We
lost because we have not educated
for democracy well enough, deep-
lose more battles unless we suc
cessfully teach democracy at
home. And make it work
It is love of America that makes
ADL devote so large a measure
of its resources and its efforts to
the advancement of democratic
ideals, ideas, and practices
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