THE EDITOR RESERVES THE LAST COLUMN
The Editor Reserves ... The Last Column By Way Of Promotion IN his last major address to the nation, in January, President Roosevelt spoke a profound truth when he warned that America's "own...
...My practice has been to quote only from those who were passionate advocates of intervention-ism,, especially those who guided us down the road to war all the while assuring us that we were being shown the way to peace...
...NOT PERMITTED...
...Truman was right, and if anything, guilty of understatement...
...Two days later, instead of firing Bonner, as the Committee had advocated with reason, the War Department promoted him to a full colonelcy...
...famine in India, the magazine quotes an announcement prominently displaced in The Calcutta Municipal Gazette, official organ of Calcutta...
...I learned last week that, as usual, Sen...
...See Page 9 for complete announcement...
...internationalism' discussion, into the war by their coat-tails...
...Then there was the statement by Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the arch-internationalist New York Times, that "we did not go to war because we were attacked at Pearl Harbor" but that "we were attacked at Pearl Harbor because we had gone to war when we made the Lend-Lease declaration...
...Beginning with his (President Roosevelt's) 'quarantine-the-aggressors' speech, through the tortuous trail of 'cash-and-carry' revision of the Neutrality Act, the destroyer-bases deal, Lend-Lease, 'all-aid-short-of-war,' to the final acts of undeclared war against Germany, the U. S. Government pulled the American people, bemused in the 'isolationism vs...
...7, 1941, was a direct consequence of the ultimatum we.secretly handed the Tokyo government Nov...
...Among the officers accused of "bungling, shocking incompetency, and gross negligence" was Lieut...
...The American people," we are told, "were eased into the war by a process of gradualism and manufactured inevitability...
...There's real hope, and constructive planning for a better tomorrow for America in these articles...
...M.H.R...
...A subscriber to The Progressive has just sent us another for our collection—this one from an article in a recent issue of Fortune—the $10-a-year slick paper journal for big business...
...Foreign newspaper correspondents in India are not permitted to cable abroad even the bare facts of deaths and hospital admissions due to starvation issued daily in Calcutta by the Director of Information to the Bengal Government...
...In an article showing how the British kept the outside world in the dark about the ghastly...
...There was, for instance, the recent disclosure of the State Department that the Japanese attack on Dec...
...Homer Ferguson, demanded dismissal of high officers in the Army Air Corps for the stupid sale of $1,721,000 worth of machine tools for $36,924...
...The Last Column By Way Of Promotion IN his last major address to the nation, in January, President Roosevelt spoke a profound truth when he warned that America's "own rightful place in the world" would be determined by the extent to which we put our own house in order, for, as he put it, "unless there is security here at home, there cannot be lasting peace in the world...
...To explore the whole challenging problem of postwar security for America the Editors of The Progressive have invited a distinguished group of Americans to contribute to a special series of articles—• a series we believe to be the most important we have ever published...
...Sen...
...Some account of the prevailing distress is permitted to be cabled, provided the bare, horrible facts are toned down by descriptions of Government measures to alleviate the distress— measures which are ao often mere good intentions...
...What Censorship Conceals FOR an inside glimpse of how censorship works, have a look at a recent number of Asia And The Americas...
...Ferguson, by the way, is preparing a special article on the whole astounding machine-tool deal for The Progressive...
...I hope they'll play their part in combating the fear which grips so much of the nation and give Progressives a faith in themselves and their future...
...Paul M. Bonner...
...Harry S. Truman, Committee chairman, was exaggerating and being overly cynical when he complained the other day that the Army often promotes officers who have been exposed as fumbling administrators or tools of the corporations they are supposed to be inspecting...
...The final desperate riposte of the Axis at Pearl Harbor merely legalized the accomplished fact...
...Correspondents must not tell the British and American public the blunt facts of the situation...
...Rewarding Bunglers THE Senate's hard-working Truman Committee has had some disheartening experiences with Army brass hats, but I had the feeling that Sen...
...He and his Committee associate, Sen...
...Manufactured Inevitability' FROM time to time I have quoted, without much comment of my own, judgments on our pre-Pearl Harbor foreign policy which may be helpful to,future historians...
...27, 1941, demanding surrender of all of Nippon's Asiatic conquests...
Vol. 8 • April 1944 • No. 14
