"EVERYBODY KNOWS IT BUT US" by Nelson Johnson

AMERICAN IDEAS WILL LEAD THE WORLD FOR 4000 YEARS,
SAYS AMBASSADOR JOHNSON--ANCIENT DESPOTISM NOW IS
MAKING LAST STAND AGAINST THE “NEW ORDER" OF FREEDOM

SPREADING FROM THIS COUNTRY, VETERAN OBSERVER INSISTS.

 

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The Ster's Special News Service herewith presents
one of the most thoughtful and forecsful expressions of
American faith and American position in the present world
crisis yet to come from a representative of our government.
It was obteined by Clarke Beach in an interview with Nelson
T. Johnson, who has just returned to Washington from the
American embassy in China and whose observations are based

on thirty-four years of service in the United States diplo-

matic service.

 

American ideas will lead the world for 4,000 years. This war is tne
last stand of the old order against American ways and ideas.

"The wave of the future lies right here in the United States of “merica,
end the funny part is that everybody in the world knows it but us.

"All the world is watching us. No American can travel in other countries
without seeing that.

"Before the war, when you stood on a street corner in the busy sections
of Paris and London you could feel the throb of the snergy coming from the

4merican dynamo. All the vital things you saw were an expression of the American

spirit. We are doing the things that they want to do. We are the heart and