WAKE UP, AMERICA!
Wake Up, America! THE absence of an affirmative American foreign policy continues to impair morale on the home front, impede the war effort, and imperil the hope of anything resembling lasting...
...So glaring is this central fact of the war that the country's highest-priced commentators, all of whom used to shout great hurrahs at President Roosevelt's pronouncements of foreign affairs, now share our alarm over the present policy of aimless drifting...
...We are financing, feeding, and fueling much of the Allied war effort...
...What this means in the case of actual individual hardship is revealed by the fact that in the State of New York alone the corporation has taken over the homes of 34,233 families, or a total of 40 per cent of the properties on which it carried out refinancing operations...
...Substitute the word "white" for "Aryan" and the word "Negro" for "Jewish," and you have the exact language of a resolution passed by the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina in this year of the Four Freedoms, A. D. 1944...
...Most of the families, undoubtedly, suffered deep deprivations in the matter of food and clothing and medical care before having their homes put on the auction block...
...Why don't we insist now on the formulation of a democratic peace program which would strengthen morale at home and in occupied countries, appeal to the plain people of enemy countries, and provide the groundwork for genuine international cooperation and understanding...
...The British, too, showed that they could make unilateral decisions...
...Although the decision is Britain's, the blame is placed by Europe on rich and bountiful America...
...No, children, that is not a pearl from "Mem Kampf...
...Look homeward, angel...
...Similarly, a London dispatch to the Chicago Daily News reveals that the British Government will continue to "appease" Eire, leaving to the United States the job of coercing the Irish into doing our bidding...
...But they had at least been told—not by their still silent Government—that the Atlantic Charter is dead...
...The report disclosed that of the more than $3,-000,000,000 advanced to more than a million small owners there is an unpaid principal of $825,034,-484 in loans that have been foreclosed by the corporation...
...Moscow's recognition of the Badoglio regime in Italy left our State Department and the British Foreign Office looking somewhat silly, along with the floundering Communists in America and England...
...CERTAINLY the developments of the past fortnight have underscored anew the urgency of American action...
...that the Administration's persistent inability to formulate a foreign policy was based on Term IV politics...
...Despite the overwhelming vote of the American Congress, the Churchill Government announced last week that it would continue to refuse our request that food from America be allowed to enter Europe for the sole purpose of feeding the starving children of occupied countries...
...America, as we have said before, must throw off its present cringing acquiescence in everything suggested in Moscow and London and formulate and proclaim to the world an American foreign policy which holds out the hope of political and economic democracy to all people of all nations, friendly, neutral, and enemy...
...And at this moment we are generously spilling more billions into Lend-Lease programs and United Nations Rehabilitation funds...
...America has a right to be heard in the councils of the United Nations—but first we must have something to say...
...From The Master's Voice WE indignantly and vehemently denounce the intentions of all organizations seeking the amalgamation of the Aryan and Jewish races by co-mingling of the races upon any basis of equality...
...Then why, in heaven's name, not approve—after due checking up of willful defaulters and chiselers—the cancellation of debts owed by Americans now homeless...
...Soviet Russia continued to play the game her own way—without consulting her British and American allies...
...Home, Sweet Homeless AGRISLY ECHO of the late depression comes with a financial report recently released by the Home Owners Loan Corporation, an agency which was created in 1933 to save hundreds of thousands of distressed families who were in danger of having their homes foreclosed...
...and that this lack was so serious that it had begun to seem that World War II would settle nothing...
...No reasonable person will deny the present emergency calls for spending on a grand scale...
...The Progressive's concern over the lack of meaningful war aims and democratic direction has been expressed repeatedly during the past year or more, and certainly everything that has happened since the conferences at Moscow, Cairo, and Teheran, has tended to strengthen our conviction that further reliance on a policy of temporizing and compromising can lead only to disaster...
...We reaffirm our belief in and our allegiance to established Aryan supremacy as now prevailing . . . and we solemnly pledge our lives and our sacred honor to maintaining it, whatever the cost, in war and in peace...
...THE absence of an affirmative American foreign policy continues to impair morale on the home front, impede the war effort, and imperil the hope of anything resembling lasting peace when this war ends...
...Time Magazine, concluding nearly five columns of quotation from the awakening experts, last week presented its own melancholy judgment in these words: "The U. S. citizenry might not yet be able to piece it all together...
...Cancellation of the billions of debts owed us from abroad was approved...
...And during those same grim years, as you also recall, there was no effort to collect the many billions in debt's owed to us by defaulting European governments...
...These, you recall, were the grim years of the great depression...
...Thus in one state alone, there were 34,233 families dispossessed because of failure to repay borrowings from the Federal Government...
...Yet no reasonable person can feel comfortable at the thought of the Federal Government foreclosing on thousands of American homes...
...that the relations of the Big Three are worse, not better, since Teheran...
...Why don't we use our bargaining power while we still have it...
...America, you see, must pay the bills, do the dirty work, and then stand silently by while Moscow and London pursue their respective foreign policies of Russia First and Britain First...
Vol. 8 • March 1944 • No. 13
