THE EDITOR RESERVES THE LAST COLUMN
The Editor Reserves The Last Column AHALF-BURIED dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, last week carried one of the year's most heartening bits of news. Dr. William B. Pugh of Philadelphia, chairman of the...
...Their crime...
...Four Freedoms Note Two of Mr...
...More than a million hungry and destitute persons are being fed one meal daily in Bengal as famine ravages the most densely populated section of India...
...A Virile Religion' Dr...
...Contrast Last week two postponements were announced...
...Our soldiers today want a virile religion—a religion that gets down to the reality of their lives and is related to what they are doing...
...To vote for Roosevelt because of Churchill, and in spite of the group's opposition to his former domestic policies, is becoming the token of the supreme war sacrifice around the country clubs...
...Would press for early action...
...It was said," reported the Reuter's news agency, "that they were distributing leaflets and attempting to hold a political meeting...
...The Supreme Sacrifice' It will be Churchill to Roosevelt in 1944, the British Prime Minister throwing his following among the American upper-crust to his friend and savior, the American President...
...Pugh made another interesting observation-one which confirms many a report appearing in The Progressive during the past two years...
...Other Janeway opinions: President Roosevelt 13 moving to the right, beating the conservative trend by joining it...
...Ball & Company were silent on this new stalling of long overdue reform on the home front—reform which would give the ballot of a free people to 10,000,000 currently disenfranchised Negroes and poor whites in America...
...The Senate Foreign Relations Committee revealed that action on legislation to commit Congress now to postwar policing of the whole world would be postponed for a while...
...Last week, also, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced postponement for 30 days of consideration of the much discussed and long debated bill to outlaw the poll tax as a requisite for voting in federal elections...
...11 there were 1,292 deaths from starvation...
...The absence of hate among the boys who have been asked to make the supreme sacrifice, if need be, on fields of battle three to ten thousand miles from home is a refreshing contrast to the hatreds which corrode the minds and hearts of men like Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, Bernadotte Schmitt, and Walter Winchell, who venture no nearer the fighting front than the newsreels can take them...
...He talked with hundreds of chaplains and thousands of American boys, and his outstanding impression was this: "The lack of hatred of the enemy in most American men...
...Eliot Janeway, keen political analyst for Life and Fortune, put it this way after a swing through the Middle West: "Another factor helping Roosevelt is that the upper crust in the midwestern cities is swinging toward him as religiously as the same element is on the Atlantic seaboard...
...Roosevelt's Four Freedoms—freedom from want and freedom of speech—are taking a fearful drubbing in Britain's India...
...Pugh's first-hand observations were bad medi-" cine, of course, for the professional haters in America who have been preaching the poisonous doctrine of permanent hatred of people like the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese...
...William B. Pugh of Philadelphia, chairman of the General Commission on Army and Navy Chaplains, completed a three-months inspection tour of American Army camps, in England, Scotland, North Africa, Sicily, and the Middle East...
...Not so with the modern American soldier...
...Meanwhile, 66 young Indians carrying Congress Party flags were arrested...
...Many influential Republican leaders want President Roosevelt to win a fourth term because it would be poor politics to win in 1944 . . . "One difference between Roosevelt and the Republicans holding this view is that, though the Republicans, too, have no program for winning the peace and staving off a depression, they know it" . . . Wise Republicans are saying, "In 1944 we'll win with Roosevelt and in 1948 we'll take over for a generation...
...H. R...
...Fifty deaths a day are officially attributed to starvation in Calcutta alone and during the week ending Sept...
...This, he hastened to add, does not make the American soldier less capable, but has actually helped him achieve military victory at a greater speed and with more lasting effect...
...You could tell these boys' fathers 25 years ago that they were on a holy crusade, in a war to end war or fighting to save democracy...
...Joseph Ball and other sponsors of proposals to reform the rest of the world testily announced their patience was wearing thin and they...
...He is intelligent and he is interested in what it's all about because he knows something of the world in which he lives...
...He would almost laugh at me if I talked such rot...
Vol. 7 • October 1943 • No. 41
