This is Charles kuralt for the next hour. You will have the opportunity to hear one of the great masterpieces of radios Golden Era a program that has moved since it was first broadcast May 8th 1945. The day World War II ended in Europe. It emerged from pan of Norman Corwin who wrote the program and directed it and produced it as originally broadcast 50 years ago. Here is Norman Corwin on a note of Triumph.So they've given up that finally done in the red is dead in an alley back of the villa and Strasse.Take a Bow GIF take a bow a little guy the Superman of Tomorrow lies at the feet of you, none of this afternoon. This is that kept this is the day all the way from Newburyport to Vladivostok. You had What it Took and you gave it and each of you has a hunk of rainbow around your helmet seems like Freeman.Is Victory a Swedish residence and how do you think those lights look in Europe after 5 years of blackout going on the six rather pretty good? Pretty good that they're the kids of Poland will still know what an orange tastes like and the smell of honest-to-god bread freshly made and sawdust free will create a stir in the streets of Athens. That's a hot time in the old town tonight and it is reasonable to assume the same goes for $1,000 that is including some Scandinavian. It can at last be sad without jiggling the campaign somehow the decadent democracy is the bungling Bolsheviks Los apson soft what suffer in the end in the brown shirt bully boys and smarter too. But without whipping a priest burning a book of slugging it Jus without correcting a girl in a firefly ordinary men and spectacular but free rousing out of that habit in their homes as Emmett has the manual of arms and set out across parallel planes and oceans to walk the bejeebers out of the professionals. That's paid it. But confirmation to the last communicate during a mock of the Allied High command clip it out of the morning paper and handed over your children for safekeeping. We're going to tell the postman next time he comes around that mister Hitler's new address is the Berlin burying ground around and around Hitler's grave around and around we go going to lay that Feller down so he won't get up no more. Hitler went to the Russian front where every bullet missed him. He caught a dose of Stalingrad that's been all through his system around and around and around and around. there are many variations on this melody tonight's many a different tongue and tune saying the same thing the serbs would refer to it as and the Danes the Greeks have a word for it appropriate to make a joke and laugh at it. but fix your eyes on the horizons swing your is about size up the day and date looking on prayer and Thanksgiving song and laughter. They did planet Earth May 8th 1945. Yo mother in St. Louis on the Mississippi was first born as a visitor in magdeburg on the elbe telegram. You patient wife of Bridgeport. Whose husband set it out inside a Nazi prison. A home for longer than a furlough now we can see how daughter for the first time. She's 2 years old strange to think. I've never met your minister and congregation in a wooden Church having coming from your Farms with a nippy night are of New Hampshire meeting together to thank the god of wrath for Justice Done. Sing unto the Lord a new song by Avenged of the Nations to find the kings in chain. You Rabbi in the synagogue By the Light of the menorah By the Light of the proud candelabra descended from the Tabernacle in the wilderness. from Egypt to the Oklahoma Prairie town You're right by entering another Red Sea Crossing in the ancient Scroll of no great. Tyranny has ever lasted. the empires of pharaoh Caesar Phillip Napoleon Hitler each flourished And held sway. And was destroyed. They were powerful. but all of them forgot one thing but the only civilization which can enjoy is a free one. And deal Bishop in the cathedral singing the dams to him who has again delivered man. Hey, it's Hannah. Have your time right now listen at the stopping at a hundred million homes. Some of them with plaster loose from the last bombing summon towns with Tom's men's blood mixed lately with rainwater in the gutters in Farmhouse of step and Upland in mining villages with Regiment of chimneys Inn Apartments of Executives where that car is impeccable in genuine, you trillo's hang in tenements where L trains go by every 7 minutes with a rack and roll hits top of the evening hip hip. Hooray. How about another drink out and a very good time being had by all Time Square Piccadilly nevsky prospekt thousand the loop browser on the boulevard headlines Chapel as a Christmas poster. This is the day this is what we've been waiting for. through the den you can hear a voice. hearing of your conscience Don't forget a whisper. Nothing yet just crowd. But listen close take your good ear out of low range Wizkid high-waisted up to cirrostratus country up to where a B-29 has Wing room. Flash across a dark Atlantic Heating under the sway of a Victor's Moon listening for information with wind and water and a rush of foggy for the grand Banks. You know these Waters. Stone beneath the Flames mm tortoise and whale bones of how many good men lie But never mind running as we are Eastwood against the grain of time. We are over the aisles and a hop-and-a-jump. We are established now on the continents. So listen closely. Just a moment. Don't expect to hear metallic speech from a rose out of amplifying horns on the hypos of the public address system. But listen for a modest voice as sensible and intimate to you as a quiet telling of your own considered judgment. Now we're ready. The Voice you hear will be that of a conqueror the man of the hour other man of the year of the past 10 years in the next 20 I'm a private first class Minami at one of the United Nations. If you don't mind, there's some things I'd like to ask. Just a man in uniform. You've met somewhere or seen in the newsreels loading the truck of marching or read about in the dispatches of fighting man. Glad to be alive. A little tired but in good shape doesn't battles not spin his gun stocking Duggan his memory. Who is he? But his name and rank nationality don't matter much. Just picture where he may be tonight in Europe. Rapson is caught in the barracks. His hands behind his head thinking things over. Rhapsody standing on a Village Green before a monument to the dead of World War 1 Rhapsody strolling in history. Where is Valley under the same Stars, which 2500 years ago. Watch the prison brand of Nazis. Take a beating in the hills of Marathon. Close your eyes. And it could reasonably be lets boy. that boy and a boy at all with war still thumping in his ears. Close your eyes. concentrate listen If you don't mind, there's some things we guys would like to ask. First of all, who did we beat how much did it cost to build him? What we learned what do we know now that we didn't know before? What are we doing now? Is it all going to happen again? And it be In the interim between the making of a toast in the drinking of it such questions on the lips of fighting men tonight questions from areas of truce insistent footnoting the armistice. Who is Lee bait? Move your ptin. Well, let's get hold of him and see. Leedom Inland prop him up before I microphone Look at this Rebel of a man. Ragged broken blonde Nordic hair matted with pure Aryan blood death from blast and blind from smoke chin down tail between his legs. It is a poor beggar. I was ordered to do it very was ordered to do it. I'm a soldier. I'm a little man. I merely obeyed all the others. I didn't who supported the party. I did when you saw where the party was taking, Germany. Whose job was it to overthrow the party? Mine did you? No. I was a member of the party. He's make now. answers questions He stands before you gun refed Tom's empty steel with confiscated wounded defenseless throwing up on your Tender Mercies the quality of which he trusts should not be strained. up 7 no didn't well. No. If you wait until we spin the mic about so that it picks up the window of an oblong bygone year. It was the year broker step won the Kentucky Derby and 3.2% Beer was proclaimed my relief it for Americans to drink. It was 1933 the microwave goes back to it. Looking out German now. Fat and Sassy swastika on his arm band cobblestone in hand ready to advance the cause. Another Jewish store window was broken. The stock will presently be loaded in the state of happy. Hey, Nonny, Nonny Tongan. Well a day this has been a good week for the little man who obeys autos and prosperity feels his jaws and biceps for his funeral was appointed Chancellor last Monday and on Wednesday. This is what we think of your note paper. You are forbidden by the Creator brother said he felt a distance as of today suppression of the opposition newspapers and on Sunday. I'm against the speed to make any criticisms, whatever. I'll listen the first week. They were in the saddle. Every week then after 4:12 in breeding years of 52 weeks each year weekend. We got to looking around carefully before speaking the leather heels on the door stoop and the bell ringing incessantly at 3 in the morning the Stormtrooper authority of dangling from The holster on his hip smugness fitting in like tights the new decree even worse than the one published last week. The dream of escape the pillow full of water with kind people. Wait just across just beyond on the other side so near they see you and have pity for you and then the Awakening in the room and Dusseldorf you're under arrest. Put your clothes on violence Beyond faithful dreams of the straitjacket of maniac in the Asylum. Was it all the better arrogant enough to do a fan out. God has manifested himself nothing Jesus Christ, but I don't Hitler. Last week College this week murder next week from the books. And don't forget the Bible fourth weekend April trial of a thousand priests and nuns The Men Who I'm masterless but free now have a messed up but no freedom. However, they have discipline and the scapegoats and want to go far on that hunger and poverty in a couple of big contributions from a couple of big industrialist and fancy treason foreign and domestic kept them going all so cruelly is to make skin creep on the sweating Scout the fact and Harry fist against the fragile mouth. I'll spit out your teeth pretty one and tell us who else was in your Trade union transcript children putrescence in the classroom scam injected in the growing arm last night said to my mother but he hates their food last week this week porch next week break a treaty form in Access. Give a hitch to Franco. Meanwhile in a small businessman who didn't kick into the party is framed on a trumped-up charge of listening to the British radio, and it's thrust for testing on a table for the guillotine. Army Reserve Center This week and every week. The Staggering lie Nation strip them tortured like a captive girl while sidewalk superintendent standby around the world and look on fascinated. Even if they watch of course that's warrants issued to themselves and to their sons. Extra double feature Austrian anschluss and the corpses of the suicide of gay Vienna a sanitary disposal of darkness Rising pageants and parade drapes and flags and such lights in the goose-step next week umbrella dance in Munich Salome bearing the head of John the check and coming soon too soon light be spectacled millions in a cast and going up by lightning and Locust in 18 days. Eastwood look land is bright. You can read an occupational order by the floor of the building Church 1600 of the townspeople are locked in there. But that screams of sizzled out the children's being the first to cease in the right context in the evening of big gust study of you will the reflected blow on the face of a little man who obeys orders. He hasn't had as much fun as this since the day he split open the professor's head and the weather plans scuffle on Freud Strasse. Now if you would permit us to move to Mike alone being careful not to trip either over the rubble of treaties of the ruins of Rotterdam. We will have a wood with the same little man who last month Taste of Denmark and Norway in a scrapbook. Will you explain why Rotterdam was bombed in thousands of his people killed after the city of surrender. What's that rifle has it means frightfulness schreckliche type is an official policy of the German High command. You seem to be feeling pretty chipper. But I'm felt worse in 4 days. Denmark in one and France we will be in Paris before the end of June. Seen clearing in the forest of compean before the end of June occasion unconditional surrender of a galaxy fraternity cast in order of Hitler was Sunshine boy Gering of The Splendid Nordic belly from profits the man who looks like a rat's ribbentrop the rats who looks like a man assaulted Admirals generals flunkies plenipotentiary Shiro, the reporter stands at the edge of the clearing watching the party advance to the Armistice car. His eyes are on the face of the Pura for the other day did a little dance for the newsreel cameras when they learn the good news of the death of France. He glances slowly around the clearing and now has his eyes metars you grasp the depth of his hatred revengeful triumphant height suddenly is always face. We're not giving quite complete expression to his feelings. He throws his whole body in harmony with his mood. He swiftly snaps his hands on his hips arches his shoulders plants his feet wide apart. It's a magnificent gesture of burning contempt of this place. the gloating hours to be remembered file it away in a bomb-proof corner, if that's there be against the better time if such can possibly arrive. meanwhile other gestures of contempt soon fill the night skies over London the cocky Pilots little man with wings Smiles in German and the Bombardier spits on his punctual hands in for wanting of which below the news is published on the blacked-out are and the workers of Britain in bed with the aches of a long day at the factory overtime. No Sundays off Rouse now from their body warm blankets in the cold room shuffle along to the damn shelter lire pooped out. Hoping not to catch a Direct Hit or sore throats and inevitably in some postal Zone. Arella. The hit is a direct hits. And the kid with a bright blonde hair on the turned-up nose moans all night among the rebel because his left leg hangs and black and tatters and he cries to his mother who is dead. The siren is a musician of no value knowing only one tune which each time playlist disturbance of the Peace. Owen the prime of the luftwaffe when there was nothing west of Dunkirk save Prospect of invasion. The tenor of life in London was considerably Bernice side of Berlin. But whereas the pubs of Westminster burn like books and synagogues in the waters of the Estuary Blaze with oil warm cafes, of course. What busy I'm gay and there was boating in the PIAA gotten the waltzes of Jay Strauss of Austria now part of the rice or especially living in the ballroom of the ad litem the dances of a drawback of bohemia lately absorbed by the greater Germany. What games could be on the control tower in The Rathskeller a brim with charm saying feelingly the leader of Ygritte of Norway rice protectorates. At war with glorious and the best champagne the France report on the tables of the ship stuff over the finest grade of Danish bacon spotted in the Skillets of loyal party workers pay dings from the Louvre. I'm faced play on the walls of Baptist garden and the ion or Sweden alloyed well with the box side of Spain the music was stimulating and the performance but continuous with a minor Fanfare for the push of us in the Balkans in the month of April. a flourish for the Isle of Crete in May and in June summer coming in with the sound of Another Broken tree today. Yay on the dawn of the second day of summer. The little man who could be relied on to take orders. Took yet another Aurora proudly. Advanced chin-up Stuka High chest out tanks pointed East into the Soviet Union and it was a great morning and War was glorious and it was exhausting to kill and destroy for that fuel as always and the Fanfare soon came every hour on the hour on the right center. Radio smolyansky are falling to the accompaniment of pronouncements from Lord, haha. dabbing specialists My betta fish is complete. It will stand alone without one single second of Leningrad Siege of Moscow Russia staggering under the bulletins of DNB and the sale of Russian German dictionary is bloomed in Leipzig city of books and culture at about which time the little man took another Swig of captured vodka stripped another car loaded Lublin headed naked men women and children in the hot showers to open their paws for the gas chamber and then sat back in his barracks and listen to Walters on the loudspeaker on the prison yard. Later in Conformity with the predictions of seasoned military observers. The Russians were crushed of Stalingrad and that was the deciding blow. Hitler give her a lot of said so himself said no power on Earth could push the van acht back from Stalingrad and who could doubt the word of him and whom God has manifested himself what Hitler has put us under no man could join and that was that and the wave of the future swept all the 4th and the century of the common area open up ahead and Germany was promises. A little man was no longer a little man. He was a Colossus stood with one foot in roads and the other in Finland. He clapped his hands on a tank of went down of Atlantic City of flame blinks his eyes and then steal my thunder and tilbrook was his in a day. He inhales and a million slaves trembling is Galvez. Nothing like him ever was he was organized from the womb of an illegitimate with State approval to the grave of his anime. His brand was on the sole of his victims and the planet fit in his palm. This is the man you have beaten. German Army general staff I guess they missed connections. They went a hundred miles a day. But in the wrong directions round and round Hitler's grave round and round we go. We return you to the Conqueror to the boy with the questions on his mind. That's the man with beeper. How much did it cost to be? How much did it cost? Well, again, the half-track in the fuselage came to a figure resembling mileages between two stars. Impressive but not to be grasped by any single imagination. High octane is high and K rations in the aggregate Mount up also mosquito netting and battleships. But these costs of calculable and have no nerve endings and will eventually be taken care of by the federal taxes on antique cigarettes and excess profits. however In the matter of the kid who used to deliver folded newspapers to your doorstep flipping them Sideways from his bicycle. And who died on a Jeep in the roar? There is no fixed price. I know I'm out of Texas can restore him to his mother. His mother sits in a room with a picture tonight and listens to a clock ticking on the mantelpiece. And remembers among other things how he struggled with a baba when he was getting his first haircut and how she tried to calm him. The upstairs tenant in consideration of the news Outdoors has to his wife. Can we invite mrs. Fish to come up rather be alone tonight? And so I don't think she's in the mood to talk or kerryon. She probably just wants to be with her thoughts thoughts. And they burn like candles quietly and slowly. And they Trail into smoking a lost in Shadows. He was a good boy. my grief I'll take with me to my grave. I'd also my pride. free died in the service of his country What's a good country? He was worthy of living in it. Play God is always be where they have his having died for it. and most of the Fallen Young leave mothers and fathers alive and awake tonight And if you wish to assess the cost of beating the fascists. You must multiply the clothes files in the Departments of War. Why the exchange value of Sorrow? Which is infinite has no decimals. Not to be overlooked either in such reckonings tonight is the international character of the love of human beings. Since this phenomenon never has been bounded on the east by Eastport. Elsewise what is a notice like this doing in the busy pages of the London Times? On this your 21st birthday reported killed in action, September 6th 1941. sadly missed mother elsewise why the young mother and Baron of each opponent writing to relatives in Orange, New Jersey? My dear muscular and all my dear one. On the 25th. That was a massacre here as in all other places. People were thrown like dogs into Privet. children with thrown alive Dawn Wells we are still among those who have been able to survive, but for how long we expect fifth everyday. Ashkelon your family is no more. Not one of them would Left Alive. I in the den. Must close this letter now. It is impossible to describe a torment. The one thing that you can do for us is to Revenge ourselves on our murderous Sunday. a lot even a little Revenge I love balance sheet be balanced. iHome Oh. No, bro containing Euclid could be Elston baffled by the simplest problem of the cost of hunger in a baby's bones. Have you paid something of the cost but you're not through paying the bill is not settled or in this way on that for the rest of your days. The cost would appear it will present itself in the form of deductions from the paycheck in a surplus of widows and fatherless children in the remembering eyes of the sweetheart in babies. Never to be conceived on love beds, Neverland. Show the balance sheet be balanced. iHome Oh. Again, we were turning to the Conqueror man of the textbooks of millennium's ahead. But what do we know now that we didn't know before? What we learned out of this war. What have we learned? One thing evil is not always as Insidious as advertised but it will upon occasion give fair warning that the smoke announces the intention of flame to follow never has disaster had so many Harold's at this war Cassandra spoke from every lecture platform and the notices were posted high and low a cabinet minister resigned the Downing Street for testing a president cried quarantine Moscow send food and guns to Barcelona a housewife of Duluth boycott of German goods and Emperor of Ethiopia 7 good friends before the Statesman of Geneva. Sweetwood news Just me the new pool the phone clock call the tooth Liberty plus your medicine. Which would we the problem the problem today is much wider than merely a question of Italian aggression. It is collective security. Is it a national morality, which is at stake. You're at least 12. So couple of God and history will remember your judgment. signs and portents It was no foot of tapping on the window sill at night, but clamorous pounding in the Public Square blow after blow like a monstrous drop Forge beating into shape the times of come. And the time came and the prophecies matured the storm arrived and was no surprise to the barometer the Jew would caution but not speaking out against the Jews alone. That's just a shame. You let them carry on this way. They'll be the death of Christians to he saw Gentiles die as well and side and fired for bullets in the cellars of the Warsaw Ghetto. Yeah, and the time came and it developed Cassandra and the Jew were right. The cliveden said was wrong fire and brimstone dropping from the sky or educational that what time was and Torpedoes summons and bums books in the running battles. Whatever was Learned was learned the hard way between blood transfusions and last rites each lesson fell triphammer hard with a bang that killed a citizen of two somewhere. We've learned out of World War II that we learned nothing out of World War II don't know what they want will get what they don't want East Coast is the West Bank and that the defenses of Seattle beginning Shanghai. We learned that a soft answer doesn't turn away right, but if you want for your other cheek to a Nazi you'll get your head blown off. We landed a newspaper with a big circulation right at home can lie with a straight face 7 days a week and be as filthy and fascist is a handout in Berlin. We learned that those most concerned with saving the world from communism. Usually turn up making it safe for pasta sauce with London women can work in fight as well as look pretty and cook. We learned that the Germans came close to winning the war of the first time even closer the second time. I'd like them well win if we give him a third time, we learned the value of allies in the world where we landed some men will fight for power, but that all men will fight to be free. We have learned the freedom isn't something to be one and then forgot It must be renewed like soil after yielding good crops must be rewound like a Facebook clock exercise like a healthy muscle. free men who forget that lose their freedom these and many more these are the lessons our sons and brothers of turn to dust teachers and what a victory will stick and the dead be not made fools of depends on whether what we learn is held as close inconstant of the catechism come summer and prosperity come winter in the Wolf come inside and come fly. Again, what can grow weary Patrols in Germany tonight under streetlights again GI triumphant by whose Dent? The lamps are going on all over Europe. We return you to the Conqueror. Is another thing I'd like to know what are we doing now? What do we do now? Why the war goes on? And you yourself man of the hour start out of an old worlds to conquer. For though the swastika comes down and just Trampled Under shoes made in Massachusetts and Lancaster are the albums of lublina revenged what goes on and P stands off stage waiting for a q at the end of a Japanese Drama mean Wild. unfinished business in Asia killing to be down among the archipelago's. Cruz attends about and makes a wider Waters the garrisons of China check the hour. Those of us who never quite believed the war could come now hasten to believe it over. We here at home who safely tighty battles in the books. Splice the cutter offensive into a feature film and went to see it together with an Andy Hardy picture at the Orpheum. Can we who follow the bloody tracks on maps and took a shower answers from pins? The tanks have gotten through. So any of us celebrate? We on the compounds of this night. Nokia we hoist our microphone again 50 feet higher than Everest. Listen to items blowing tortoise on the west wind over and Pacific Oceans. listen carrot part of young men from Nebraska dying Yes this night. where the kentuckians of navigating Coral Seas Texas Rangers bombing in Pagoda country run with us Westwood now in pursuit of a son last seen on this continent an hour back. Westwood with the grain of time over an afternoon of ocean over human tiles with a situation isn't hands and into Tropic Skies to overtake a young American on visual Have you heard from you use? Yeah, pretty wonderful. Run on among the Indus look below your now sonlight reading the surface of the sea Horizons tentative and Hayes in a flicker Banks of cumulus ahead and I'll fall behind lyrics Rush past noon day is caught up with now straight below like beetles in a pond warships out of Newport News destroy us on troll with plumber to the leader in through a ventilator on the port side aft lower a microphone until it touches bottom in the engine room. Hoist you up and over ball and die with your compact equipment Willingham into the sea and under it. Five fathoms down we go. Studying all look up roof of ocean lifts and settle slowly cups of seaweed pinned against the ceiling. This is the boundless green estate of upper ocean with tin fish swim among the foanna on regular cable of this mic and light your headlamp. We're diving deeper past schools of angler fish in sale fins down two zones with green. This goes to blue and blue the black Kavanaugh look sharp. Push hard against a crushing water. Make it out a shape. Long and slender lying on a hammock of the bottom almost covered by a drift of mud. Alas, it's not an ancient hook. It is a submarine made in Wisconsin the Scorpion perhaps the amberjack The Argonaut beat upon Hull. Have you heard the news? listen Can you hear us listen? It's all over with the Nazis. We've been mom. Can you make that out? You who are these long months unreported? You would have been out of touch of any about the deep-sea angels of the Lord is leviathan Reserves. YooHoo arresting rest assured of this over your heads and above the sea. Victory has written like a son and moves West as we tell these things to you. Your brother's going down to see and ships sail to the settling of a scar. Here with you on this ocean bed life fighting comrades men of the Cisco and the push the Yorktown the Chicago in the liscome bay. It shall be Vindicated in good time. The names of haunted kind of wasp have been fitted with new stingers and don't trim battlewagons Sailors from Northampton Houston, Helena and Lexington set out to resurrect the glory of proud sunken ships of all those names. That Jepsen conference tonight May well consider the latest news from Europe and while we're at it pleased to note the weather forecast for tomorrow coming up like thunder. Let me tell you Hirohito. Now that Hitler's down better by a black kimono cause you're on your last go round and round and around and around and around we go. We return you to the Conqueror. We're goes on it's understood. All right, when we finish with the Japs in the whole thing's over. What what then is it going to happen again? Soldier When the sweet morning comes and you're mustard out. When I get paid off another ticket in your wallet, the guarantees delivery the street and number. And the faces that you've dreamed about in foxholes. You mustn't forget to take along your homework in the back back. But there's no discharge in the war. You're on probation only. You and the faces you've dreamed about. and all the rest of us henceforward we must do a little civil thinking everyday. Not pass up the front page for the sports page as we did before. Vigilance pays interest and compound in the piece whereas Bland on concerning the appeasing cheap draw Blitzkrieg as a lightning rod attracts a thunderbolt a little civil thinking everyday. That's the homework. Yes shooting your mouth off against the bad appointments and the shotty referendum storming the redoubts of the local schicklgruber voting in season and demanding of your representative that he be representative. Is it going to happen again? listen peace is never granted uprights. It is Lent at least. You can win a war today and lose a piece tomorrow when in the field and losing the Forum. Peace has a mind of its own and doesn't follow Victory around. What is 2/3 finished in Germany won't be 3/3 finished in Japan remix about of London says it's better that you're going to be a lot longer than you can make war quickly, but you make peace slowly. It takes a second to break a piece but a long time to put it together again. There are some records in Washington say it better Congress took only eight minutes to declare war on Germany. And in the same session, it took 5 minutes to declare war on Japan between this world and the last one the world took 25 years trying to declare peace and then couldn't do it. When is great. The loan from winning greater but to put the lessons learned from winning hard work. That is the nearest trick of all alone this time and like it's we tried that before and it didn't work that we sit with the rest of the world and common Council or stand up rod in Splendid isolation not to make up our minds about anything really important. We tried the ostrich routine last time and it didn't work. So why don't you go feeling your bones that we can keep it from happening again that we're smarter now, we've learned some lessons and stronger now, we've made some friends but has it not been shown what free United People's can accomplish one does staggering the naked mind we came from behind and we came up fast. We got together and spotted them Aces and Spades and beat them at their own game show them how to pull off with Napoleon and Hitler never even dared to try Invasion across the chest. Tell him how to flag a flanking Blitz of bliss show them that when you get together and Conquer, it works out better than divide and conquer showed him how to wage a war and work and plan and sing songs all at once. We're going to tell the postman next time he comes around that mister Hitler's new address is the Maryland burying ground for round and around at 3. Round and around and around and around we go. Round and around and around and around we go. Singing Fades the celebrants go home. The boat has drained and empty it in the test attract The Guns of Steel tanks garage the play rest In The Hanger. Under the night we met. and the armed camps a boy with questions on his mind turns on his cut in the barracks stares at the ceiling says to himself. I hope to God it's not going to happen again. I hope they plan better this time. outside the view of morning glistens like a hope and light of day is just beyond the local cover. The plan gets ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow is ready for the plan. Lord God of trajectory and blast was terrible sword has laid open the serpent. So it with us in the Sun for the Justice League. She's now the Swift avenging Blade with the names of Nations rid on it. And assist in the preparation of a plowshare. Lord God of fresh bread and tranquil mornings who walks in the circuit of Heaven among the worthy deliver notice to the Fallen young men the tokens of orange juice in the whole leg a piano before the hungry children. The night again. Cooling on the earth as quietly as when it leaves your hand. Freedom has withstood the Tyrant like a motor in a hostile C and that the soul of man is surely a seven stupid which goes down hard and leaves from ruin quickly. Lord God of the top coat in the living wage Whispered the facts against the time of winter. and stored problem derbies in Somers brightest places Do bring sweet influences to Bear upon the assembly line except the smoke of the Milltown. I'm going to be accredited clouds of the sky Ben from the wind with a house in the Hedge him whom you made in your image and permit him to pick up the tree and the flock that he may eat today without fear of tomorrow and close himself with dignity in December. Lord God of test tube and blueprints for jointed molecules of dust and shook them till their name was Adam who taught worms and stars how they could live together appear now among the parliaments of conquerors and give instruction to their schemes measure out new Liberties. So None Shall suffer for his father's color of the prito of his choice. post proofs that Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those who profit by postponing it pretend. Sit at the treaty table and Convoy the hopes of Little People's through expected Straits and press into the final seal sign. That peace will come for longer than posterity is can see ahead. But man unto his fellow man. She'll be a friend forever. You have been listening to Norman Corwin on a note of Triumph first broadcast, May 8th 1945. The program was narrated by Martin Gabel with music by Bernard Herrmann conducted by lud. Gluskin. This is Charles kuralt. Thank you for joining us for this special 50th Anniversary rebroadcast. Boric acid copy of his program call one eight hundred or one for mind. That's 1-800 for 1/4 m i n d This is NPR National Public Radio.