THE SENATE SAYS 'NO'

...The Danaher amendment was followed by a number of similar proposals looking toward action on the causes of world conflict, but all of them were scheduled for the same fate...

...Even more deadly as an aid to monopoly has been the systematic destruction of, small business in wartime...

...He recommended that service men and women receive .government assistance for one year of vocational or academic rehabilitation training to the extent of tuition, fees, and $50 a month maintenance for single persons, and tuition, fees, and $75 a month maintenance for married students...

...Facts like these, which disclose what is actually happening, do make the well-meaning statements of Department of Justice officials sound rather anemic, if not actually meaningless...

...Meanwhile, thousands of little firms have had to close up or have limped along on the verge of bankruptcy...

...The President's plan is modest enough...

...That all peoples shall have the right to choose the form of government under which they will live, particularly to the end that self-government may be restored to those who have been forcibly deprived thereof...

...At one time six U. S. companies had 60 per cent of U. S. war orders—General Motors, du Pont, Curtiss-Wright, Bethlehem, Newport News Shipbuilding, and New York Shipbuilding...

...Everyone knows, of course, that the gold-braided officials in the Army and Navy persuaded the President to call a halt on monopoly prosecutions because court action might "waste" the valuable time of our corporation executives...

...Roosevelt and Churchill gave to the world as their war aims or peace objectives...

...The Danaher amendment proposed, in part, that the United States participate in the post-war maintenance of peace providing the peace treaty itself shall contain an agreement;—• "1...

...While the professional internationalists were haggling over the precise meaning of their weasel words, Danaher sought, in effect, to smoke them out from under their peace halos by getting them to take a stand in favor of a peace settlement which would get at some of the causes of world conflict...

...This refusal of the Senate to approve the type of amendment proposed by Sen...

...Monopoly Advances IT IS DOUBTLESS comforting to have the Anti-Trust Division of the Department of Justice issue an occasional blast at this monopoly or that cartel, but the cheerless fact remains that the greatest impetus to industrial centralization comes from the Roosevelt Administration's war program...

...Today, the Roosevelt Administration, supposed to bring a New Deal to the little man," Pearson wrote, "has witnessed a concentration of 75 per cent of all war contracts in the hands of 56 big companies, has sat by powerless or incapable to act...

...Education For Veterans PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S recent request for a billion-dollar post-war educational program for war veterans was so thoroughly sound in principle and purpose that it won the unofficial approval of all groups in Congress except the false-economy Woe...

...That no signatory nation shall seek aggrandizement, territorial or otherwise...

...That they will undertake fullest collaboration among all nations in the economic field to the end that they all may enjoy improved labor standards, economic advancement, and social security...

...This latter group promptly demanded to Jcnow where the money was coming from to finance the post-war education of men and women released from the armed services...

...JOHN DANAHER of Connecticut made a courageous effort to give meaning and vitality to the Connally Resolution on post-war foreign policy, but encountered a frosty reception in the Senate...

...Certainly this is a small enough contribution from the government toward the education of men and women who will have given some of the best and most productive of their formative years to the military .service of their country, and who will need every help possible to prepare themselves for gainful employment and good citizenship...

...The Administration has wrung its hands, has realized that after the war the country will see a greater concentration of industry in the hands of a few than ever before, but so far its attempts to remedy the situation have been tragic and feeble...

...Drew Pearson, .Washington columnist, told the story last week of the Roosevelt Administration's failure to act decisively in this vital sector of the nation's economy...

...That no territorial changes shall be permitted which da not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned...

...they were taken, in fact, from the principal provisions of the Atlantic Charter which the Messrs...

...It is one of the supreme ironies of our time that men who showed no hesitancy whatever in dumping billions into educating our youth for the highly refined skills of modern warfare are horrified at the prospect of spending a modest amount toward aiding these same young men and women make something worthwhile of their lives...

...Danaher's six points contained nothing new or revolutionary...

...That they will grant to all nations, great or small, victor or vanquished, access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity...

...Yet, in disregard of these basic considerations and in blind indifference to the great debt of gratitude the nation owes these men and women, the Tories raise their hands in horror at the thought of spending a billion dollars on education and human rehabilitation...

...Danaher and others confirms the melancholy impression of a great many Americans that the collective security b'oc in Congress is more interested in binding the United States to enforce, through a world police force, whatever peace settlement may be reached, however harsh and reactionary it may be, than it is in dealing head-on with some of the major global maladjustments which lead to war...