Produced by Curtis Weyant, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * PROCLAIM LIBERTY! ALSO by GILBERT SELDES On Related Subjects Your Money and Your Life Mainland The Years of the Locust Against Revolution The Stammering Century The Seven Living Arts The United States and the War (London, 1917) This is America (Moving Picture) AND The Movies Come From America The Movies and the Talkies The Future of Drinking The Wings of the Eagle Lysistrata (A Modern Version) _Proclaim_ LIBERTY! _By_ GILBERT SELDES Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto them.... Leviticus xxv, 10. [Illustration] THE GREYSTONE PRESS NEW YORK PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA TO THE CHILDREN who will have to live in the world we are making ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks are given to the Macmillan Company for their permission to quote several paragraphs from Arthur Koestler's _Darkness at Noon_ in my first chapter. _The Grand Strategy_ by H.A. Sargeaunt and Geoffrey West, referred to in chapter two, is published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. G.S. Contents PAGE CHAPTER I TOTAL VICTORY 13 CHAPTER II STRATEGY FOR THE CITIZEN 29 CHAPTER III UNITED...? 44 CHAPTER IV "THE STRATEGY OF TRUTH" 61 CHAPTER V THE FORGOTTEN DOCUMENT 77 CHAPTER VI "THE POPULATION OF THESE STATES" 92 CHAPTER VII ADDRESS TO EUROPE 111 CHAPTER VIII THE SCIENCE OF SHORT WAVE 119 CHAPTER IX DEFINITION OF AMERICA 129