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Dwight David Eisenhower

Destination Freedom · 1950 · 30 min · 3,965 words

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...the setting... ...the setting comic's purposes are now appearing every day, including Sunday, and the Chicago Herald American. And tell all your friends about us too. Remember the paper, the Chicago Herald American. Destination Freedom. Listen.

And this is Paul Revere, called back from the shadows by the sound of the Freedom Bell. To cry again, a warning, that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Destination Freedom is presented by Station W&AQ in the interest of human freedom for world over.

Paul Revere is the symbol of warning, ready to ride down the skies to shout his alarm. His destination, now and forever. Freedom. The task that confronts freedom-loving people all over the world in 1951 is staggering.

And awful in the implications of what may happen if we lack courage and vision, and if we do not fully accept. the challenge of the future. Our destiny at the moment may lie largely in the hands of one man, a man who has been chosen by fate to create a bulwark of defense against the ever-increasing

hordes of communism. That man is Dwight David Eisenhower, whose destination in 1951 is undeniably the preservation of freedom for all the democratic peoples of the world. You know somebody once said that every man is really three personalities. The man he thinks he is, the man other people think he is, and the man he really is.

Well, let's ask a neighbor of Eisenhower's editor Charles Harchers, who's been called the William Allen White of Aveline, Kansas, what he thinks of the general. Hi, Eisenhower. Sure, we know him well around Aveline. We, Kansas, like to claim him as a native son, but I guess he really belongs to the Lone Star at State, too, since he was

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