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With the singing of the aria from Marymount by Howard and we've voted tonight reported celebrity concert featuring the void with elevated American on the. Morrow night at nine the next. Hour. This is the municipal broadcasting. You're listening to New York City's own station W N Y C eight thirty on your dial W N Y C F and forty three point nine on your dad. Good evening peace time American we're speaking to you from the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel where we are to bring you a ceremony marking the climax you know people reception by the city of New York general and Wainwright. Will be toastmaster and. General Wainwright and his party. His Honor may. Not. Take. The United States. President of the United States. Live long enjoy good health. There is a great burden. And ladies and gentlemen. Another man who represents to all Americans. And our greatest national triumph a man who suffered for all America. And who represents today the sorrow in his own person through which we as a nation have. And the hopes. Of our great free country for a glorious future and have a moment I also like the. Gentle way. Thank you. Welcome to the city. To be extended. Guest of Honor. My distinguished son. Classmate I want gas. Prices and Commerce and Industry Association of. Carlyle and Pope. Thanks to Matt. Knowing right. Now doing. I guess this is weighing right and letting fellow members of the Congress interest. The city of New York and yes. It is fitting that this is the largest city country. Today on our show distinguished. I don't lead if you're a man of God Yes. The people of this city have expressed to him in no uncertain terms their affection and admiration the great state of New York pays tribute to him through the presence of my chief executive Governor Thomas a do it is like my stating that they should be here tonight representatives of Commerce and Industry and labor. Oh by providing equipment and other services transportation have done so much to bring this walk to a successful conclusion. Would that equipment might have reached the Philippines in time. It is spending also that we should join I pay tribute to some of the members of General Wainwright's military and personal staff who fought and suffered as prisoners with him may I ask the gentleman to rise as I call the names and remain standing and all the names of call and may I ask you please to refrain from applause and all tell all have stood Brigadier General Louis C. B. B. Colonel J Q thank the general Colonel Thomas duly. Not to Sergeant Hill but Carol. Thank you. And now may I make a special request that a life long companion of general way right please right now to that we make stand with Mrs Wainwright. Thank you. It is fitting that a group of members of the class of nine hundred six of the United States Military Academy general Wainwright. Should be present and may I ask them to Rajas a class and greet the general in their own way. Thank you. Thank you thank you. Thank. You I have known General went right for a great many years he was just the same man of courage as a young staff as he is today and yes because he will be I don't know man and long life to a skinny girl. And they all remember that Osama's never die they only fade away. It was after all inevitable that such a man should have been given that command in the Philippines. A command to compose his gallant time to write just a group of men and I don't want the uniforms United States of America wants. Many of those men will never come back to us thank God keep their soldiers the special camp for up it may be general that the cause of your long terrible years of isolation from the world you may not know that the people of this country and very general of the press frequently refer to you by the nickname the same as that by which we know you when you're a kid at West Point skinny Wainwright you maybe show up that's so intimate a title would never been applied to you did not hold you didn't break the state the people of this country and very generally the press also thirty you as the hero of Corregidor are up and down noble title and well deserved. Nine thousand. Because I was a fellow cameraman of ya's and a red leather love life with you on more than one occasion I like to think of you and I would like you to think of him as a two fisted cavalry soldier. Went down fighting against. That by carrying out the. Cavalry and. Thank. You general I'm extending to you. And I'm at peace. Thank you. Thank you the mass. Production General Jonathan Mann White Rock. Thank you. Thank. YOU THANK YOU. And. This day has been magnificent climax to the welcome which my comrades and I received. From one. Liberation. Day. As we have had in New York. Where. There. Are raise. Your. Right after more than. One more. New York. As you know. And I know. That. You. Lord. No. They know when we were on. Our. Build up a striking. Almost. The same. Before he got. To recover his breath. And. When you. Are you must be prepared. You will have the ability. And. You must be. Sure of. Modern War is not one. Even greater. It was a good. Thing when compared with. The power. Base from which the factories. Turning out weapons. Of War. In the early days of whack. Preserving the caps on Taiwan where I was held. On time OK. I recall a significant statement in one of these issues. In which you remember all the apparent. For the war all. Stated. If the Axis powers do not when the water like forty three. Can never win a war and will repeat it for one hundred years. I suppose that at the time this felt that his words of the writer ever but this had a prophetic quality which was covering to me you know Dog Day I knew that your pet had lost the war I only hope he was right on the second thought that she had begun at least a hundred years of regret. It Right. To pattern like the ever to take measures to recover territory to a list. Of the people although not a happy life there are a few gestures of friendship in the way of public life Japanese leaders from the. Intended to give the subject nation. A share in the so-called prosperity but whatever cooperation may have been gained by the state was immediately lost through the truck to every Japanese soldier. Made up occupational forces. We say with pride that the American. Nation. That it was. To carry. The character of a nation. Through the impression lives of every citizen but where our own man again respect the Japanese. Is a bully. And while a brute force. Hard to enjoy inflicting pain both mental and physical on anyone lacks the power to strike back is not a coward but he lacks the generous spirit. That gives meaning to Cory throughout my days of captivity it was a domineering calling. Man all the Japanese army which are costing farming thousands of American soldiers died. And neglect those a lot. Of the victims and indignity both great and small aimed at inflicting pain and humiliation I would be less than you know if I had not emerged from my experience with a deep distrust and hate for all the Japanese character as I have known for more than three years. Thank you. It is not important what happened to me. But I think it is very important that the American people should understand the nature of this people with we have beaten back to their part they are not sorry for what they have done to countless thousands in the population of the countries they have all around they are not sorry for the tortures they have inflicted on American soldier it simply would not occur to them to be sorry because they have done nothing which is at variance to their acceptance. That is the point which should be clearly understood I am a soldier and I do not pretend that no will be required or by one step the elements of their nature can be eradicated but until we are assured that these parties have been extinguished not nearly so marred. Then the Japanese nation ours and it is today to make war will remain on that are still this world it will be repulsive. To all our days will just advocate the same sort of treatment. Which they gave. I have no desire for personal rage nor do I believe that all those who suffered would have that feeling I feel that we should treat the Japanese in full accord with the law of war. As they are practiced by civilized nations but not me but but it must not be a soft occupation nor a soft thank. You or. The band must be made to rely on ever step over a long road back to acceptance among civilized nations. That a government does not indulge in the excesses she has lived in the world these past fourteen years and call it quits when a leader that had enough. They must not be permitted for one moment the illusion that we will let them view. As merely a break and stop for their vision before there is again a lot of to take place among other respected nations She must be made to realize that her meaningful ways can have no place in war. She must learn. That through humanity and Russia rather than to see and treachery are the basis of international relations and the way of life I have seen the Japanese as they are whenever there are stripped off I will bear the scar over here all my life and I could not forget them if I would. I have come to know the cutting with. Their true nature and how quickly. Or when there is no immediate retaliation the Japanese can hardly. Be pleasant and cooperate. But the man. And the regular. Have seen the Japanese character in the wrong. They have seen the Japanese. Well I think all of the torture days are determined that they shall never forget. How inspiring it is to come out of the darkness of. Living under the people that are of the sun like America I thought America for. China. We're taking So now after our leverage. In the friendliness and consideration with which we were seeing a lot of talk from the station there with on the blogs a realization that we are free man once more in the union we have little. In the sight of the great new army we thought. We have the big news and the spirit of America. I tell you. Are your birth for a man the way. Great Nation has become. Not only a military might but in war and frightening and. We must keep it that. We must remain strong and brave in spirit. In our determination. To. Keep the world. Not secure wishful thinking. Thwart. And thus be concluded the general Jonathan Wainwright perception coming to you from the wild off Astoria in New York City this is the municipal Broadcasting System.