TIME FOR THE TRUTH
Time For The Truth GEN. DWIGHT EISENHOWER performed a vital national service this week when he radioed this statement from Algiers: "This is a hard war, a bitter, bloody war. Make no mistake. It...
...It is only then, when the people know the magnitude of the job and what is expected of them, that the home front will provide that total cooperation required to bring the hard, bitter, bloody, and long war of which Gen...
...Eisenhower spoke to a victorious conclusion...
...But health authorities are alarmed by the sharp increase in the spread of the disease among civilian populations...
...First Things First (E...
...Yet the comparison is a good one...
...In an effort to bring it under control an intensive educational campaign has been undertaken in some of the areas where it has been found to have its highest incidence...
...J. Glenn Beall of Maryland, appeared to express the feeling of many of his colleagues when he said: "Many of these statements we heard should be told publicly...
...Walter H. Judd, Minnesota Republican, made one of the most cogent arguments in favor of the Magnuson repealer when he pointed out that passage will help materially in counteracting disquiet among the Chinese caused by recent speeches of Prime Minister Churchill...
...Ely Culbertson suggests that the boys should get together, hand in their guns to a community council, which would then pass them out again, but distributed in such a way that no single gang would dast attack the combined triggers of the rest...
...Eisenhower's dramatic plea for reassurance from home strikes us as being more than anything else an eloquent indictment of the manner in which news is given out by the brass hats in Washington and in the manner in which that news is presented to the public by press and radio...
...The War Department acted wisely last week when it permitted its top-ranking military experts, from Gen...
...With that idea accepted, then a court and a police force become possible...
...Our men know it, and are ready for it...
...One Congressman, Rep...
...Dixwell Chase in Worldover Press) IT HAS BECOME commonplace to compare our international society of today with the rip-roaring days of this country's pioneering West, when the only law was the law of the six-shooter...
...But they want to be assured above all else that the home front is behind them...
...Without it, those institutions not only will not be able to preserve the peace, but may actually aggravate the feuding...
...Certainly the average American, relying on what he hears on the radio and reads in his paper, expects victory a great deal earlier than the military commanders in the field believe it can be achieved...
...Prompt concurrence by the Senate, followed by Presidential approval, will provide at least a tiny installment of our obligation to a great ally...
...Gen...
...The campaign urging the necessity of prevention and early treatment has the cooperation of the press, the radio, volunteer public speakers, and all agencies for the dissemination of information save one—the motion picture theaters...
...I'm one of those fellows who thought the war was about over, but what I heard today made me kind of sick...
...The latter's emphasis of Britain's imperial aims and ambitions has created distrust among Chinese concerning the sincerity of Anglo-American war statements, Judd pointed out...
...Unfortunately, the meeting was held behind closed doors, but the word was allowed to leak out that the report "left many convinced that a terrific struggle lies ahead...
...But others have held that the men of the community must first of all make up their minds that feuding doesn't pay, that if a neighbor steals your horse, the wrong is not redressed by setting fire to his barn...
...George C. Marshall on down, to speak frankly to the House of Representatives oh the progress of the war thus far...
...The time has come when the Administration must take the people of America into its confidence and let them know what is actually happening...
...Walter Lippmann and Clarence Budington Kelland, apparently assuming that that is the best we can hope for, propose that we should keep our six-guns strapped on, adding more if necessary to overawe anyone in a rival gang who might want to pick a fight or rustle our cattle...
...A Forward Step THE HOUSE of Representatives deserves the applause of the whole nation for its speedy, decisive action in, voting to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts and substitute a quota system which will permit about 105 Chinese to enter the country annually...
...Hollywood Prudery VENEREAL DISEASE, according to recent reports of the United States Public Health Service, the War Department, and the Navy, has been effectively brought under control in the various branches of the military service...
...This is not the first time the Hays office, which somehow manages to blind itself to the crudely suggestive dialogue and scenes in some of the current movies, has allowed its ridiculous prudery to obstruct meritorious educational projects...
...Enlightened public opinion, alert to the vital need of marshalling all available information outlets in the campaign to halt the spread of venereal infection, must spare no effort in convincing the movie magnates that their phony morality is- a danger to public health...
...Although the material proposed for use in the theaters has been prepared so inoffensively that it does not even contain the words "venereal disease," the Motion Picture Producers' and Distributors' Association, with its characteristically exaggerated sense of decency, has refused to grant permission to have it shown...
...Eisenhower wanted to know was whether the home front would support the war as it actually is and will be—long, bitter, bloody— and not the make-believe war as it emerges from War and Navy Department communiques and newspaper headlines—a succession of easy, almost bloodless victories which point to a quick victory...
...What Gen...
...Rep...
...It will be a long, long war to final victory, over a bitter, rough road...
...Enactment of the Magnuson bill into law can hardly abolish the suspicion of the Chinese and other Asiatics toward our war aims, but it does constitute a modest announcement of friendly intentions...
Vol. 7 • November 1943 • No. 44
