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The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

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Title:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Date:
1944
Publisher:
New York : Richard R. Smith
Volume:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Leaf #:
00029
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 01, 2025
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UNITED WE STAND 17 and that any international settlement following this war, which violates the average American's idea of right and wrong, will not receive approval. Our national esteem for America's great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, rests upon the fact that in his private life and his public service he adheres to a "cosmic constitutionalism" which begins and ends with the thesis of a fundamental moral law. A second thread which runs through the entire warp and woof of our national life is the doctrine of the free individual. Our forefathers came here seeking liberty. Our frontiers moved steadily westward as succeeding generations sought and found freedom beyond the mountains and across the rivers. We of motion pictures are both believers in and beneficiaries of the free enterprise system. Within the short span of half a century, this art industry has become a great medium of popular entertainment through freedom for inventive genius, for business initiative, and for artistic development. Our national goal, if I judge correctly the public temper today, is a system of private enterprise which is both free and just. The privilege of freedom carries with it the obligation to be just. Once this war is won, most Americans will insist that necessary wartime limitations upon individual liberty be removed and a proper balance between liberty and authority be restored. Consider now two other doctrines closely intertwined. One is the doctrine of progress; the other that of the mission of America. We Americans refuse to think in terms