Four paths reduced to one
I've been missing real SW, so decided to use some old recordings of real SW. This 1947 broadcast from Radio Moscow is properly nostalgic, starting with the familiar interval signal and list of frequencies, then launching into a mix of news and propaganda. The news and propaganda are clearly separated, which was normal practice on all sides then. Nobody bothers to separate now.



The propaganda in this particular broadcast is not nostalgic at all. It's identical to the current situation. We're right back to 1947, with US expanding and supporting tyrannies and Russia trying to slow us down.

Here's a loose paraphrase, not a transcription. The audio is poor and the writer is verbose and heavy-handed in typical Radio Moscow style. I'm mainly interested in the four senators who were solidly anti-interventionist. Nobody in today's Senate would speak up so firmly against our aggression.

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Truman was giving a speech to newspapermen about his bill offering aid to Turkey and Greece. Truman wanted his audience to see in this bill an example of America's so-called aid to democracies. I don't know how many of the newspapermen agreed with Truman, but opinions expressed around the world show that ordinary people in America and Europe certainly have different ideas on this matter than Truman would like.

Senator Langer of ND, citing reasons for voting against Truman's bill, said clearly that he did not want American money to be used for strengthening the tyrannical govt now in power in Greece. The current rulers are driving into the mountains all people who attempt to express an opinion.

The NY Herald Tribune said that Greece is ruining its own people specifically to gain support from Washington. Honest Americans can see that Washington is trying to prop up some of the most tyrannical regimes.

Sen Edwin Johnson of Colorado said that the bogey of Communism was being set up in America to camouflage military maneuvering on a tremendous scale.

Sen Glen Taylor of Idaho said that American foreign policy was becoming the policy of military strength.

This is supported by some of Truman's supporters who sometimes accidentally blurt out the straight facts. Sen Vandenberg described these foreign aid bills as the last attempt to put American ideas into force without a war. Vandenberg speaks for the forces who say to the world, Accept our ideas or else. Vandenberg speaks for out-and-out expansionism seeking world domination. Of course this reminds us of certain other world leaders who also tried to cloak their expansionist aims with the bogey of Communism.

So the question arises. Who is the power behind the throne? The answer appears in the same speech to newspapermen by Truman. Truman speaks of a dark cloud hanging over American economic future, and mentions the sky-high rise of prices. High prices, of course, are a symptom of monopolies. The monopolies that control the economy want war. They favor giving money to bolster anti-democratic militarist regimes in Europe.

Sen Albert Hawkes of NJ also indicated that the common people were displeased with Truman's plans.

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Vandenberg (R) is familiar to me. He was a major driving force in the rebirth of Deepstate. I hadn't heard of the four opponents, so looked them up....

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Wild Bill Langer (R) of North Dakota was bred for politics. His father was a lawyer and politician, and Bill started out with a good NYC law degree and offers from the best firms. He rejected them and returned to ND, rising fast in state politics through establishment circles. He ran afoul of a corrupt opponent who controlled the courts...

Because of the felony conviction, the North Dakota Supreme Court ordered him removed from office, and on July 17, 1934, the Court declared Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson the legitimate governor. Langer gathered with about ten friends, declared North Dakota independent, declared martial law, and barricaded himself in the governor's mansion until the Supreme Court would meet with him.[5] Langer eventually relented, and Olson served the remainder of Langer's term as governor.

In 1935 the convictions were overturned on appeal. The case against Langer was retried twice in 1935. Judge Miller, following a recusal motion by Langer, refused to step down as judge in the first retrial, which resulted in a hung jury. In between the second and third trials, U.S. Attorney Lanier filed charges against Langer for committing perjury in his recusal motion against Judge Miller. This trial, unprecedented in its nature on perjury in an affidavit requesting a recusal, resulted in a directed verdict to acquit Langer. The second retrial of the original charges, finally presided over by a judge other than Miller resulted in Langer's acquittal.

After this hard lesson in the realities of politics, Langer returned to politics with the opposite aim. He finally ended up in the Senate, where he fiercely defended his farmers, fought against war, fought for universal health care, and opposed the UN. A serious Populist in every way.

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Edwin Johnson (D) of Colorado spent most of his life in conventional politics. He seems to have been deeply affected by the A-bomb:

Johnson is also known for the alternative he presented to mankind in November 1945: "God Almighty in His infinite wisdom [has] dropped the atomic bomb in our lap." Now for the first time the United States, "with vision and guts and plenty of atomic bombs," could "compel mankind to adopt the policy of lasting peace … or be burned to a crisp."

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Glen Taylor of Idaho (D) was a wild outlaw from the start. He ran as VP with Henry Wallace on the Progressive ticket in '48. The Dems got tired of his antics and his anti-war ideology, and found a more amenable Senator. Would he have lasted longer without the fistfights and singing? Probably not. Under the antics he was deeply committed to sanity:

In July 1947, Taylor was asked by a United Press reporter what he thought about reports that remnants of a UFO had been found by the Air Force near Roswell, New Mexico. Taylor replied that he almost hoped flying saucers would turn out to be spaceships from another planet: "They could end our petty arguments on earth." He went on to say that no matter what the UFOs turned out to be, they "can't be laughed off."

"Even if it is only a psychological phenomenon, it is a sign of what the world is coming to," Taylor explained. "If we don't ease the tensions, the whole world will be full of psychological cases and eventually turn into a global nuthouse."

Prophecy fulfilled. Except it wasn't a prophecy, it was a PLAN by Deepstate.

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Hawkes (R) of NJ was a businessman who served just one term in the Senate then went back to business. Wikipedia doesn't have much info on him.

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One insider who got INSTRUCTED and turned outsider, one ordinary insider, one permanent outsider, and one temporary unsuccessful politician. All of them saw the truth about imperialism.

Politicians with real opinions, not just automatic brandbots. Real opinions and principles are gone now. All Senators approve all wars. Each brand pretends to "impeach" the president of the opposite brand because he is running the wars for the wrong brand.

We desperately need more Wild Bills and less Tame Bernards.

Later and broader observation: The real Shannon information in this piece is the FACT that I recognized Vandenberg, but hadn't heard of the non-interventionists. We reward and remember the most vicious warmongers. We forget and destroy peacemakers.

Labels: Experiential education

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