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 | | The Dean of Canterbury to the people of America: We can keep peace |
| Titre : | The Dean of Canterbury to the people of America: We can keep peace / auteur(s) : Hewlett JOHNSON - |
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| Editeur : | American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union |
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| Année : | 1948 |
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| Imprimeur/Fabricant : | London |
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| Description : | 14,5 x 21,5 cm, 24 pages, couverture illustrée en noir et blanc |
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| Sujets : | Peace |
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| Lecture On-line : | non disponible |
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Commentaire :Late in 1948, in the forty days from November 5 to December 15, in the midst of a continuous war hysteria, great audiences in twenty-two of the largest cities of the United States and Canada came to hear Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury.
The Dean's message—"We CAN Keep Peace" was received with impressive enthusiasm—and reports of these great meetings were almost uniformly ignored by the press.
Starting in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, thence from coast to coast of the United States—at Yale University, New York's Madison Square Garden, Chicago's Civic Opera House, Atlanta's St. Phillip's Cathedral, Civic Auditoriums in Denver, Seattle and San Francisco—and to thousands of listeners in Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Madison, Winnipeg, Milwaukee, Ann Arbor, Vancouver and Philadelphia—the Dean of Canterbury brought his message of facts and his proof that peace CAN triumph over the forces of atom war.
In every city, audiences urged that the Dean's message be made available to the people—so that the facts may be known, so that we DO keep peace. The Dean's great San Francisco audience, through the American Russian Institute, has issued this copy of the Dean's historic address. |
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| | At the foot of Ararat |
| Titre : | At the foot of Ararat / auteur(s) : Hewlett JOHNSON - |
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| Editeur : | Armenian national Council of America |
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| Année : | 1945 |
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| Imprimeur/Fabricant : | New York |
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| Description : | 15,5 x 23 cm, 40 pages |
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| Sujets : | Armenia |
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| Lecture On-line : | non disponible |
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Commentaire :FOREWORDThis pamphlet, although a reprint from Dean Johnson's latest book Soviet Russia Since the War, was written at the request of the Armenian National Council of America. The Dean had been a guest at the election and consecration of Gevork VI, Catholicos and Supreme Patriarch of All the Armenians, at the Armenian Ecclesiastical Assembly, which met in Echmiadzin, Soviet Armenia, in the summer of 1945.
Dr. Johnson promised to comply with the request, either by writing a separa:c account of his impressions of the Ecclesiastical Assembly, and of Armenia, or by including a chapter on the subject in the book he was then planning to write.
He had full opportunity to study first-hand the situation in Armenia and the rest of the Soviet Union. He went freely about the country, observing and experiencing all with youthful enthusiasm. He writes with warmth concerning all he saw in Armenia—whether it reflected ancient glories or modern achievements. He was, as the reader will see, particularly attracted to the traditions and beauty of the Armenian Church, its architecture and its ceremonies. His description of the consecration of the Catholicos is an historical document, as well as a masterpiece of literary expression.
The Dean is captivated with the natural beauties of the land of Ararat, its majestic snow-capped mountains, deep gorges, wide and verdant valleys, and Lake Sevan, "the world's highest great lake . .. bigger than all the Swiss lakes put together."
He is attracted to the ancient history of Armenia, and its people— their creative energy, their industry, their social institutions, and their deeply religious nature. Often he refers to the vigorous, graceful physiognomy, the healthy instincts, and the cheerful disposition of the native sons of the land.
During his entire visit to the Soviet Union, the achievement of the Soviet Armenian Republic impressed him most. He was definitely encouraged about the situation in Armenia, where he "found the visiting Armenians from many countries rejoicing at the physical fitness of the children and their high cultural and educational level." He mentions casually, in another part of the book from which this pamphlet is extracted, that whereas in 1917 only 34,000 children attended school in Armenia, 320,000 were in attendance in 1939. As in other parts of the Soviet Union, Armenia "is the land of child and youth."
Perhaps there is something to the story that Armenia enjoys the favor of the new order in that group of federated republics, though probably not quite in the sense in which enemies imply. "Nowhere perhaps does the Soviet order shine more happily and splendidly" says Dr. Johnson, "than amongst formerly backward people. Poverty-stricken Armenia has stepped in one stride in a new life, prosperous, cultured and proudly national."
In his address at the 28th anniversary of Armenia in New York, where the Dean was a guest, he concluded his speech in these words:
"I love the new Armenia and its beautiful capital, Yerevan; I love Echmiadzin, the See of your church; I love Lake Sevan, where I took a swim and partook of its celebrated 'Ishkhan.'1 ... If I had not been in Armenia I would have been so much the poorer in spirit; and so the world would have been if there had not been a Britain, a Russia, a France, and the ancient and lovely land of Ararat."
It is with a sense of deep gratitude to Dean Johnson and Boni and Gaer, the publishers in the United States of Soviet Russia Since the War, that the Armenian National Council of America releases this pamphlet to the public on behalf of the Armenian people which it represents. CHARLES A. VERTANES
Executive Director
ARMENIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA |
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