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Show THE AMERICAN WAY 1 OUR COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG V-A" 5 mm By Georg f f J DID you listen to the proceedings proceed-ings af that alleged Progressive Convention? Unfortunately, I did and my stomach still does flip-flops as I recall the nauseating nausea-ting things that were said there. It almost passes belief that this nation has so many crack-pots and hate-mongers spreading their venom abroad in the land. The crowning irony is that this conglomeration con-glomeration of liberty - haters held its first convention, of all places, in Philadelphia the Cradle Cra-dle of Liberty, and the City of Brotherly Love. Practically every m i n o r i t v group was represented there all had their spokesmen. But not one word was said by anyone on behalf of the nation's most important im-portant group the one that includes me. I mean the group of Americans who have worked hard, saved some money and invested in-vested it in American enterprise. All the Wallaceites talked about was how to grab off the earnings and savings of this group and do it in jig time. Any lingering doubt that Henry Wallace's Progressive Party is Communist-inspired and dominated vanished into thin air in Philadelphia on Sunday, July ; 25. Its platform expresses strong1 criticism of America's foreign ' policy, and particularly that part 1 of it which applies to Russia. : No reasonable person can object j to that. It is the God-given pri-velege pri-velege of any American to ex- . press nis opinion, and the Progressive Pro-gressive Party is well within its rights in voicing its disapproval. disappro-val. The point is that when one of the Vermont delegates proposed an amendment for insertion in the platform dealing with Russian-American relations, it was overwhelmingly hollered down by voice vote. This amendment read, "Although we are critical of the foreign policy of the United Uni-ted States, it is not our intention to give blanket endorsement to the foreign policy of any nation." f i i IT is incomprehensible that I any group of Americans could find the slightest objection to this, which simply would have put the Progressive Party on record to the effect that its members do not hold the opinion that the United States is out of step in the world parade of nations. na-tions. In railing to adopt this amendment, amend-ment, by almost unanimously rejecting re-jecting it, the Progressive Party showed its true color Red The Killer of Little Pigs and the Singing Cowboy surely must have heard of Stephen Decatur. 'Twas he who, in proposing a toast at Norfolk, Virginia, in April 1816, said: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country right or wrong." And that sentiment so aptly expressed by the naval hero of the War of 1812 has ever been the sibboleth of patriotic Americans. Ameri-cans. Our State Departments at times may have bungled its job. Our country may be wrong, but it is our country. Apparently this does not apply to the Wallaceites Wal-laceites and the Marcantonios for them it is Russia, right or wrong. It is true that there have been times when our foreign policy has not been something about which to estatically rhapsodize. But you won't catch any real American admitting that our foreign policy is not the best of any nation extant, This would seem to indicate that there were no real Americans present at the Progressive Party convention. If there were, they did not speak up. Vive!, the Spirit of Decatur OUR COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG. |