Robert S. Allen

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For those of you who did not hear the often meet the critics last through the evening at nine thirty the book of the Month Club is pleased to present this repeat of the broadcast in front of. The back of the Month Club present the author of the critic. The night Colonel Robert it out on me Dr Frank thing to many people and writers in a pitched battle on a new book and exciting it with a of municipal government and fight old off air that. After you've heard the often predicts we believe many of you will want to read this book Joyce if you're interested the book of the Month Club will be happy to send you a free copy of our fair city fathers draft by its editor Colonel Robert F. out we'll tell you more about that unusual offer later in the program right now here is your regular chairman John Kerry on the Capri. Our fair city it's a much breaking but indeed it that if you're going to Robert Allen has been compared to a town or I'm sure you would agree with that godfather of all my fakery I can step down Allan that the more you will remember him as a co-author of The Washington America route and a much decorated hero of World War two after being a member of General Patton that now we're going to let Alan Alan tell you in tell us what he tried to do in his new broke all records steady but to put it all about we're very pleased to be able to predict now the man responsible for tonight but Fattal and for that provocative first our fair city General Robert Allen thank you Mr Kerry. Seven P.M.. Author of this I do a very simple thing that is to tell the honest and frank on of the war and story on their home town the state of the list in their own path. And through their seventeenth study seventeen communities covered in the third grade. And. We'd studied. Constitute a very grim picture. I want to make this one thing clear let's start with the grim picture and if the book but the man who wrote the starvation. Wrote him on the fame kind of an assignment that they could get it to play for me and. That he had to go out and cover the story they wrote they need think if they're starving that they found their stories they're not long here in the earth they're not really I merely they're working to pay for a man who know without whom you're like their own and they got their money diverted to break we've talked about their manhood like they're. Now up for what they say they are not the delight by the people but the man about the free to tell a story and authority they don't know all get down to a fundamental thing one minute that uplift Apathy is the evil in that to pull it through another reason that to them particularly think that. You know the. Impelling factor in the fullness through the other many other things in New York or if there were the ducting if you deny they point out this very significant fact and if the all important that during the last decade would ruin this town it was the thought we have a politico at. The rooftop of a lifetime when the one with teeth. And I removed the word looking in the old plant the place I go at it if it fairly go ahead and. Secondly that there is no one story from this pound that after we've heard from three year and confidante of the mayor that could perhaps now get through with running the found Thank you won't have a repetition of what do I want from for the life you want minute break but I want to take you right there I got a good summary of your product and you're going to be on again Carol Allen I'm going to ask you for a few minutes to beat up bell ringer a while back that expense that he got there on the view that it carried the analogy a little prayer they will permit me all the time by getting your bell whenever you feel architected there could be admonished and you'll be allowed to call the play thoroughly and with it much sale if you like it right I will file down to your right as a member of the New York to the planning and the author of the new book entitled American fighting I should think that you would have a very definite and about Colonel Allen forget what you think about our fair that my idea was that that left I think it's an interesting book but the media the five it's the fiscal. Cliff. That fell by firing go ahead run that the amplitude field all are caught up with the up to. Date data the kind of muckraking that have played it is out of date with my opinion that if that is the. Take more of them on it then we need to get the best of the left. About it from the left as you have the right at least three to look through it look at what the propriety of the Faithful was on it briefly for up to you didn't follow it properly and I would say I HAD TO bearing down to the outlook have the army brigade. Oh it apathy to the public after I found the thing I would caution if the judge but not break the pattern with mine there is this statement which will deliberate righted. Colonel Allen laugh when the time now rather to think anyway are you have to wait. Out the fifty dollars for I bring you aren't careful Alex that your friend came to our attic that well radio alligator and cochairman of the perspective of America now you may have different fit with the Roger decade and what do you stand in our critical for if they have to think different than put the budget that they put into it I have with the author of the book here that I think the book is not that I need to come after the fact that about what I've done with study of members very well I think the study of New York is not so well done and I think the study append the good old clearly input to the pickle if they did our nation did great there's not very well done before there is no legal analysis of the political machine which gave the two men the good stuff but with the movie theater of the books I am an entire group I think probably they thought most of the political corruption in our country lies with the political damage figure to the third and that the anatomy of political correctness in the fifth did outline pretty well by Matthew Chapter I guess they're not I only wish that. Out Alan that's taken the time after the seventy chapters were ready to write an introduction which would have given a. Yes or even if you go over the introduction but then I thought I could do a bit of that in production which would have been really. To do that but not all of what goes into making up a political pretty well out of date I think you like I do want to but it didn't really get out of it off the top and I think the time back into it but he looked at the time in that if you report your report on your article you know all of the. Ratigan I type report that I need a couple of R.R.. That exactly what I want to get at Dr King and why do you expect to defeat the art in the Arctic year in the dark back to New York thriving politically with the thief in New York is that I guess it doesn't analyze the underlying economics and go through. With go to heaven. With melted body of power but you have to fight as we have no authority like it. But I would rather that Mayor Well I think there is a hot that belief that members of the. And with what the Democratic Committee and the Phillips Wadia would prove to put up as capable of man would never try I think they'd marrow drive to get there OK well I don't think they need the top off political vote event within the to be thought through to me not to be expressed and if framed in the chapter on the if that's the purpose right that's the picture of them rather than the picked Oh of course I didn't but I was the last. Night we passed a going to come out on top of all right Iraq what do you think about this pick your New York Times reporter gave the Colonel Allen had given a letter and I thought well I think the chapter on they are they are from da parallel do you think that if it were that without the felt the I am not yet to defend your fifth Well I know more about it I think I'd do it if they did. The fact that my original idea that. The book is superficial. Colonel Alexander start. An. Out of date. Them I pray to God that we've had it before I'm to do it the old five had always been under wraps goes out on their thumb through the fifth then the wrath goes out put in on a man like you get perfect gallop and of pride when the performance come in they can't give a perfect I would love it if the plan month. Doesn't come off and that the people through and after that after they. Give up the fight and if they go about all they have to act I fed the beginning it all that corrupt. You are going to take it to the country. Buy it let's go out and help but live free if they're up at him for. That well off your office off the bat I'm afraid just situation but allow it gotten that bad because no longer keep him from talking there are too many I would. Say. The ballot and obviously no longer satisfactory and we've really got to bring on our author of the thank you thank you so much noise without being able to talk that I have to take a left right program going to be there Alan you have the microphone Thank you that's why. I see the sound of the of my first find the market for it right down to life before you take the part of the pope on the back of the superficial and we try not to put an effect on paper or to pick it out of the fear factor into it's not like the smell of the carpet or off the property in the country no well in the fall I don't know why should any founders that knew the literati and winter clearly we have thirty and fifty one people who aren't going to help but if I could. Well that's the little. That's left in the top I mean you're all going to get a little whipped with the crown Well I wanted to do with it and I worked with Harvey and I have you both I'm a member of the of the anybody in the book thirty my dear and now what do you find you know I found the people kind of funny or forward through they just wrote about how people really like the captain thing hardly I'm part of why not for the politics there who are not part of their top people popularity and that's probably. Great for folks who don't like I have I felt sorry. For. Him right if you like I truly are going to now you know I. Crossed this mild pattern with a little comfortable well for you know I think there needs to man I want you to play for me and they know there are times when they don't like you and they went out to tell a story now they get it all right they will walk you take the lead they'll think you know they don't know all of that well right I'm talking about the past. Few days but they point out plenty of good thing Philadelphia just got a much smaller field they're all sorts of Mark printers and water that is so far from the effect Pacaya. New York City has what have you got a very good luck finding it feels different all thought the think and act top twenty fifth but not even know who can win it all and I know it's not. All good now but in fact if that's true for Plainfield to find out my stereo matched up there. Anything back thanks to all the British record but only for the big. Bad Well if the five no then the five is. Left a value of theirs but gave them the go button five the thing though thank god I get stuff like Dr. Operation a good deal to put for the economic factor that I thought there would fall to the right of the poor probably didn't want that correction that I want to opt out I think they'll come up with fire and corruption No I think just start with everything you'll fix seventeen fifty Yeah but actually doing that in no country and they kill my great cats of course we put those dollars where you get a country and they kill my three cats of course we could always let me get one too I don't wait a minute I think that's a very important point because I think you go back to what Mr Rogers says that you'll find out that the basic political evil in thirty off the city relied on the things I have an objection that's not forced on I thrive Dr if I point out the in my with your doctor with you were very critical of I'm right back and i'm not i Phone pumped up now what you wanted was the book on economics when we were writing I don't want to cook all they can though I don't know why I said I wanted to work that's all right so the public good thing it's how a political machine worked for we don't I don't fucking know that money but I felt that by the sitting I'm not talking about the politics if you're not talking about fifty McCain Well if McCain runs that if I don't have to talk over the first three comics like the one you know those who don't tell it I don't like it the choice you don't know the stuff I don't like the way you felt what satellite but you don't tell if I waited at the radio audience to see that because both Colonel Allen and Dr Dean act two of the greatest Playford to think your tenure. And I don't think I think that they are going to go and fight for time since the longer. I stay alive and I mean I think nothing I think just as much. Stuff this year I may end the criticism. I'm a question getting up on the middle. I don't know that I like that but I know I don't. Really. Expect well as I say that's a. Lot of politics itself as well as government. Body of. Well you know we're writing about it on economics and that's. Been written. And not enough attention has been given to the. Honest to goodness problems that face any government regardless of. I think a minute I think you have to feel as a rebellion against me know when you say that this isn't a book about economics and I think that economics is limited I mean when Colonel Adams says that's the business man is that the basis of political corruption then you simply say that the economic factor is a very strong factor. But you can't. Talk about politics without discussing economics because what is politics the struggle for power what is economics is one of the basis of the combination of the two is what people who come up all right now in terms of. This thing that they're tossing around here so can easily economic. Screw ups in their. Drive does complains is too much corruption and. I want to point out to him there's not only for option but there's economics are underlying fundamental things for instance one of the things that is very decisively in my family brought out in chapters of this book particularly Birmingham in December was the fact that for many communities particularly in the south and west are known they are feet they don't own their souls. Cooperation and. Worked for me hand three hundred pounds and one of the great seal is the sound of the conference on the wound and he's dancing the only song phone that's all very clear in fact what he's talking about economic What is that take number with his own Fi Channel and others a community of over three or four hundred thousand with absolutely foreign owned in the sense that this is only economy absolutely somewhere what is that it's not economic it was when I was the school for flats a long time ago to not leaving a laughable that wasn't there to know that you learn the school. Well. My feeling about us not all is that we have some feeling lots of things of course there's that kind of pressure that's business and corporations are up to the fall of patients and legislate that kind of thing but get down to the things that affect New York the living conditions that we complain about the subways the for housing to make it a little for you you in your own introduction. Blame New York City's government assumably for the terrible from all the slums in New York I don't know if it's a private property or privately owned just to get them down and set up firemen pay the owners now where the economics is the city of New York going to get the money to pay for that don't consider it down and build a new house I'll tell you and here's the answer right here on page ten on the block in particular got. A good spot I found that there is another aspect of this absent control problem that is equally Fischer's and repressive and I'm talking about the things said where are they going to do this and here is the answer this is three factor narrowing and figure this nomination centers now. Lou your fire wrong ruled legislates tour through the new stuff obsolete and out floated so constitutes a long haul past that scene a little fundamental that I know I haven't had time to write down. A ballot and write you're having a laugh and I problem right now Miss Alice picked out the one fire graph in the book where there where he mentioned by play what I regard more time that they think the problem. I don't also an adapter. That's the problem is that Bob but I was thinking of the matter of empathy it's lot in league with great mass of materials dealing with what I regard as secondary math we can still writing a book on every subject but we were not to do that well established because rock is a people's drama desired with an egg and there's no way we will ever get people interested or get them to read the other side the difference is between going to them over the thing home and making out he didn't come back oh very dull the idea of Mark I know what I think but I don't I get it done it better never once lived I think with the rights of the little computer I mean all of us to realize that governing a city is a pretty tough job and that it has a lot of favorites and you can always say to anybody who comes along and criticize it well that's your only talking about sixty percent of the stuff the other forty percent of the top is good but you've got to talk about the think the percentage up and the plays no you've got to turn around to talk because if you don't you can't put people in group will be good even for a little while now if they say it long enough they'll become Russell soon but that's why we had periodic electives so that we can see it's a place cleaned out and continually have somebody in with a new broom. Because as a matter of fact we do have a pretty fancy government in the city it's been a minister by an honest man bought the France two terms and it's in the hands of an honest man now there are plenty of problems in New York Heaven knows but there is no out and out fundamental dishonesty I think everyone says of gamblers opposing the police evidence is that the boy is taking a few dollars in the door but there is no real fundamental corruption in New York but the problem isn't the politics about the city. We've got to get a little too optimistic. Something Rather than. Look at that and don't realize we're pulled out all depends what we can slip back into tomorrow if we don't get that amount of Dr King that's kind of Alan's optimistic view that we are being run by mediocrity that this term provided. No public mediocrity in the fight against the law and in the first place that isn't bumbling and in the second place because of the mediocrity I mean you know here's a guy who came over from Ireland when he was a young man and by sheer force of character and ability put him self in a place of leadership and he hasn't been bumbling he said he did some below that in the early days but it wasn't when he was suddenly faced by a strike that threatens society the entire city I think the tone a great deal of courage and a great deal of ability in finding his way through. The day. I point out. He's only been in office. Has found that he has to go to heaven and get the kind of the city must have some kind of it's not that a not a filing. To get city keep the city going and meet the demand and when he gets to Albany he finds me sitting down with Tom Dewey That's right and that's what I think of as I say oh my. Now we're going to bring General Allen back very shortly to sum up his own attitude towards his own book and toward our fair study but first our announced there Alan that bridge would like to tell our listeners how they can get a free copy of our fair city autographed by Colonel Robert S. 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In effect in adequate municipal governments in our country and it's all summed up in this little paragraph on page fourteen this very spiritual intercepted it that we would not put it on a card work intimate act not another thought so what is outside but it is if you're elected. I'm nother universe almost through with the formality now of the strength in the studies that this brought me is the lack of a defeat for the producing and continuity and honest intelligence and confidence in this supposed uniform management that is perhaps the most significant over all fact left in this prospect for the survey of Americans that through our acceptance every study stresses the crucible this proves the weakness it is the law of tiredly incurables and this sort of going with all of our US that he's stuck with and that is the real heart of this thing we don't have a witnesses we don't have any loans we don't have a system a good consumer list when the supposed government in our country and that leaves it up strictly to our audience all the people who have listened to this program what are you going to do about your fair city Colonel Robert S. Allen has given us the his ideas and the ideas of the top flight newspaper men of the United States about their fair city it's up to us now to find out what we do about our fair city and that's a great responsibility in the now next week it's going to be different. We are delighted to be able to bring to our microphone an old friend of the author meet the critic professor when he's not dealing with corrupt Dr admin is written a new book which is so charming with a profound delightful but I'm afraid that it will make philosophical converts of the soul the title of Dr Edmonds book is philosophers question when you finish reading it you begin to understand how philosophy can become a necessity more important than eating breakfast as one reviewer as they put it. All or abusing Dr Edmonds book at the highly and consistently laudatory we expect no pitched battle but we can guarantee you after our sparkling thought provoking conversation next week Dr wanted me to meet John Mason Brown and Eric Hansen and I stimulating discussion of what one philosopher sought and found in philosophers plus now if you'd like to attend a broadcast of the author meet the critics at times all to forty West forty fourth Street just drop a line to station W seven thirty fifth Avenue and we will be glad to send you take it and now I want to thank Colonel Allen for coming here to discuss our fair city and our thanks to you Dr King didn't Mr Rogers for joining us this is John McCaffrey saying good night for the author meet the critics. Directed by marking. The good news week with a good history of the book of the month we think it's one of these dogs that's maybe a claim by writing to the.