WHERE THE NEWS ENDS
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin Churchill Tells the Tale OF THE WARTIME BIG THREE only Churchill seems likely to tell the full story of the mighty events of which he himself...
...His first impulse after the defeat of France was to offer peace...
...From a voice in the wilderness during these last-three years he has become a vindicated prophet...
...To be consistent, she should claim credit for the original chaos at the dawn of creation...
...Larger rents often mean a bigger hole in the tenant's pocket...
...According to the American Council on Race Relations, in nine more states—Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Pennsylvania—FEPC stands "a fair chance of passage...
...Churchill gives a vivid picture of the unbreakable endurance of the people of London and the other cities that bore the brunt of the Blitz...
...After the battle of the air had been won and Churchill had paid his winged tribute to % British fliers ("Never in the field of, hurnlij conflict was so much owed by so^ariy atO%j few"), the plan of invasion-was indefinitely shelved...
...fairly chosen by universal suffrage, able to ' turn out the Government any day...
...Britain, most inadequately armed, faced a victorious Germany which was in possession of most of the territory and resources of Western Europe, which had a working understanding with the Soviet Union, which was in possession of the entire European coastline to the northern boundary of Spain...
...To many, both friends and foes, it seemed that thejast hour of Britain had struck...
...AFTER THE FALL OF FRANCE...
...The' building of the House of Commons was blown to pieces, fortunately by night, .when it Was empty...
...With civil liberty the paramount issue of our time, Congress will And it turning up again and again in whatever legislation it happens momentarily to be considering...
...To liberals disheartened by the backwardness of Congress, the news reported above should be a source of inspiration: let them redouble their efforts to add to the growing body oi local civil rights statutes...
...It was indeed Churchill's finest hour, and the finest hour of the British people...
...THERE IS MUCH MATERIAL of interest about Anglo-American relations...
...The number of states which are enacting FEPC laws, for example, is steadily increasing...
...He has now published the second of his projected fivevolume history of the war (Their Fin'est Hour...
...Actually, the odds were not as one-sided as they seemed on the surface...
...In the long run, mounting pressure from the grass roots will force Congressional action in favor of a federal program...
...Where the News Ends By William Henry Chamberlin Churchill Tells the Tale OF THE WARTIME BIG THREE only Churchill seems likely to tell the full story of the mighty events of which he himself was so considerable a part...
...There was an attempt to hamrntr Britain into submission by air bombing and to strangle it by submarine blockade...
...British sea power was still a tremendously valuable asset...
...At Churchill says, with justified pride: "After all, a free sovereign Parliament...
...There is a vivid picture of the fall of France, with Churchill shuttling back and forth between London and Paris and Tours, one of the...
...To the contrary, antidiscrimination statutes have generally worked well (although in some cases they are only mildly administered), and have become acceptable to business and other conservative elements...
...The report that the lands within the Soviet orbit ore mowing towards'freedojn it a tribute to the marvels of science...
...And the stirring story which he tells in Their Fineti Hour is an augury for,the success of the rally of the forces of freedom which is symbolized by the signature of the Atlantic Pact...
...It is remarkable how veterans' benefits are all in the groove when Congress sings for the record...
...The House reversed itself in favor of the Rankin pension bill on a roll-call test, after first rejecting it on an off-the-record vote...
...It covers the period from Churchill assumption of office as Prime Minister in May, 1940, until the end of that eventful year...
...PEN POINTS - - - - - Morris B. Chapman Holding a special session during the summer, for a finish fight on his civil rights program, may be Truman's,best ace in the hole...
...examination...
...Houghton Mifllin Company, Boston...
...So Churchill alone among the principal leaders seems destined for the role of historian...
...When this was rejected, Operation Sea Lion—the plan for the invasion of Britain—was set on "foot...
...But it was condemned to failure in advance by the German failure to establish air mastery over southeastern England...
...In ordering his miners to return after a twoweek holiday, John L. Lewis hinted at an even longer work-stoppage later., His ace in the'hole is the club he holds over America's headt...
...but proud to uphold It in the darkest days, wu . one of the points which wore In dispute with the enemy...
...One suspects that of the five, this is the volume from which Churchill will derive the most pleasure and pride in writing...
...To the five which previously legislated "little FEPC's" have been added, so far this year, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington...
...The morally discreditable and politically stupid attempts to appease Stalin at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam were in the future...
...The United States had little aid to give...
...Some points of detail have been called into question by Paul Reynaud, General Weygand and others;, but it seems likely that Churchill's main contentions, which are by no means lacking in sympathy for France, will stand the test of historical...
...But Parliament continued to sit...
...Meanwhile, failure to pass federal legislation has not discouraged local action...
...The book contains, among much other interesting historical material, the full text of the very important letter which Churchill sent to Roosevelt on December 8, 1940...
...Russia's extravagant claims of having pioneered all inventions do not go far enough...
...Hitler himself was never over-confident of his ability to invade England...
...Of his relations with Roosevelt he writes: "My'relations with the President gradually became so close that the chief business between our two countries was virtually conducted by these personal interchanges between him and me...
...The British possessed radar and other scientific inventions, and their air force was superior in quality, although inferior in numbers, to the German...
...The candid, secret yhemoirs of Stalin would be fascinating...
...The NAACP, is wise in banning Communist front-groups from attending a conference on housing, jpood homes may be constructed even without pe use of left wings...
...brief stopping points of the demoralized French government after it fled from Paris, in a vaia attempt to insure a continuation of resistance outside of France...
...Churchill also publishes the text of a letter which he sent to Stalin after the fall of France, suggesting Anglo-Soviet cooperation in blocking German expansion...
...The Atlantic 'Pact is one way io curs the Kremlin of Its occu- ' pational disease...
...Ail Editorial— FEPC Marches On REPUBLOCRAT REACTION has by no means killed off the civil rights program...
...But it /is very improbable that such memoirs exist...
...Truman won the election, but the country tost it * * * , The House version of rent-control that would raise rents at least 10% will cause widespread I hardship...
...NOWHERE HAS ENACTMENT of fair employment practices legislation overturned the existing order, as white supremacists and their allies claimed it would...
...The letter went unanswered...
...This undoubtedly inspired the idea of lend-lease...
...The unpredictability of politics was demonstrated by the Administration's legislative de-' , feats...
...He was primarily a land strategist and was always nervous about overseas operations...
...There is nothing to mar the record of national heroism, of which Churchill himself was the embodied soul, when Britain stood alone against the greatest odds in its history and held out by sheer pluck, resolution and cool-headed endurance...
...The book was published just when Churchill was about to deliver the sequel to his Fulton speech three years later at Boston...
...Parliament won...
...These facts being so, those who have raved about the danger of federal interference' with "state's rights" ought now to implement their much-vaunted rights by passing a few laws against discrimination in their own states...
...Roosevelt's writings after Pearl Harbor are remarkably meager and fragmentary...
...Nor will ft fail to hear further from the people themselves...
...It often takes "heat to bring matters to a boil...
...The blunders of pre-war British diplomacy were in the past...
...Few people had an idea that instruments capable of measuring such inftitesimal motion had been devised...
...The free world Is resolved io, keep Russia from occupying new territory...
Vol. 32 • April 1949 • No. 17
