[vale] henry allingham and walter cronkite

Henry Allingham

This blog ran a post here on the recent occasion of his becoming the world's oldest person. Now he has passed away, I hope to a better place.

Maildotcom says:

Allingham's longtime friend Dennis Goodwin said he died in his sleep at St. Dunstan's care home in Ovingdean, near Brighton on England's south coast.

"It's the end of a era-- a very special and unique generation," said Goodwin. "The British people owe them a great deal of gratitude."

For details of his life, click either the post or the maildotcom links.

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Walter Cronkite

The Washington Post wrote [you may need to be registered]:

Walter Cronkite, America's preeminent television journalist of the 1960s and 1970s who as anchor and managing editor of "CBS Evening News" played a primary role in establishing television as the dominant national news medium of that era, died last night at age 92.

CBS was widely considered the best news-gathering operation among the three major networks, and Cronkite was a major reason why. With his avuncular pipe-and-slippers presence before the camera and an easy yet authoritative delivery, he had an extraordinary rapport with his viewers and a level of credibility that was unmatched in the industry. In a 1973 public opinion poll by the Oliver Quayle organization, Cronkite was named the most trusted public figure in the United States, ahead of the president and the vice president.

Cronkite was often viewed as the personification of objectivity, but his reports on the Vietnam War increasingly came to criticize the American military role. "From 1964 to 1967, he never took anything other than a deferential approach to the White House on Vietnam," Gitlin said, but added, "He's remembered for the one moment when he stepped out of character and decided, to his great credit, to go see [Vietnam] for himself."

Might I say that this bears similarities with the British General Sir Richard Dannatt. The Washington Post's piece is quite touching and let's not speak ill of the dead but do remember that he also said:

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty.

Public opinion changes in the manner of the canal boat crashing into either bank, mentioned in the post before and now we have the spectre of the EU monster, the SPPNA, NAU and NAAC and the UN's own reputation taking a battering as being the focal point of the globalists' ideas of world government.

Cronkite, either wittingly or unwittingly, supported that international socialist thrust, that historic, clandestine totalitarianism which is now being fought so hard by patriots, conservatives, supporters of the constitution, libertarians and those who love their country but to give him his due, he did act as a stabilizing force during some of the darkest days of the U.S.A.

He also said, paraphrasing critics:

Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil! Well join me… I'm glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.

I hope he has seen the light and is going to a different, happier place, now that he has passed away.

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