ANOTHER D-DAY AHEAD
Another D-Day Ahead CASUALTY lists are growing as a harvest of D-Day, spectacularly launched against the coast of France. A year or two from now there will be another D-Day, begun without bugles or...
...But the new lease on life for FSA is limited, and the limitation shows once more that Congress falls far short of appreciating FSA's value...
...FSA: One Year To Live...
...The GI Bill of Rights, dealing fairly generously with the immediate needs of discharged service men, has already been passed...
...From the St...
...Harley M. itilgore, West Virginia Democrat...
...It will take time and intelligence to prevent our demobilized millions from beating themselves bootlessly against the blank walls of a postwar depression...
...THE Supreme Court's verdict in the second case, involving Carl Wilhelm Baumgartner, Kansas City, Mo., was unanimous...
...None offers promise unless built along the general lines of the bill offered by Sen...
...Some of the plans are short-sighted and reactionary...
...In the process, it has made some enemies, principally big land-owners, whose displeasure is a warrant of FSA's success...
...Surely, it would be as foolhardy, as inhumanly wicked to launch our demobilized millions into a season of depression and hunger as it would be to fling our soldiers at the shores of France with no equipment save wooden guns and paper hats...
...And the casualty lists following Demobilization Day may well be staggering unless the same foresight, energy, and detailed planning are concentrated on the problem of peacetime economy as was centered on the problem of military attack...
...Government evidence was introduced to show that he unfavorably compared President Roosevelt to Hitler, called American democracy "a farce," and entered anti-Semitic sentiments in his diary...
...One of the prerogatives of American citizenship," said the Supreme Court in a restatement of the democratic ideal, "is the right to criticize public men and measures, and that means not only informed and responsible criticism, but the freedom to speak foolishly and without moderation...
...In its 5 to 4 decision in the case of Elmer Hartzel, Chicago, the Court showed that its faith in the .strength of American democracy is far more resolute than that of our nervous liberals who expect American institutions to collapse everytime a crackpot, Klansman, or Bundist pours out his bigoted soul...
...But the mere fact that such ideas are enunciated by a citizen is not enough by itself to warrant a finding of criminal intent to violate the Espionage Act...
...The majority of the Court—Justices Murphy, Stone, Black, Roberts, and Rutledge—rightly characterized Hartzel's writings as "odious ideas," "gross libels of the President," and "flagrant appeals to false and sinister racial theories...
...It took a full year of intense study and preparation to plot the strategy which sent our soldiers against the walls of France...
...The narrow escapes which FSA has been having lately indicate that members of Gong>ress who should be guided by FSA's achievements are allowing themselves instead to be led by its enemies...
...A Brilliant New Chapter THE United States Supreme Court strengthened its standing as a front-line defender of American liberty last week when it handed down two memorable decisions on freedom of speech in wartime...
...Nearly 10 years later the Government launched court action to cancel his certificate of citizenship on the ground that he obtained his citizenship by fraud in that he did not truly renounce his allegiance to Germany...
...It wilt be the aim of The Progressive in the coming months to discuss in detail the tremendous problems of the transition era after the war which may bring either security or chaos...
...The* expression of views which may collide with cherished American ideals does not necessarily prove want of devotion to the nation...
...It provides machinery for an expanded social security system to care for displaced and unemployed workers, and it would create a national production employment board composed of representatives of labor, industry, and agriculture to plan a cooperative attack on the problems of reconversion...
...Bills covering the larger, more complex field of displaced workers in war industries are in process of hearing, and one of them, or a compromise of several, will be passed...
...D-Day will mean Demobilization Day...
...Each plan merits as much study and analysis as Is lavished on the charts and blueprints for the conduct of a military war...
...By the same token the two decisions constitute a challenge to those who believe in fighting falsehood with truth, hate with tolerance, and fascism with an ever more militant democracy...
...An American citizen has a right to discuss these matters, either by temperate reasoning or by immoderate and vicious invective without running afoul of the Espionage Act...
...The evidence is not sufficiently compelling to require that we penalize a naturalized citizen for the expression of silly or even sinister sounding views which native born citizens utter with impunity.*' * * * The United States Supreme Court has written a brilliant new chapter in the never-ending struggle to preserve and strengthen American liberty...
...FSA has attacked agricultural poverty by helping the little fellow to make his land more productive, for his welfare and for his country's...
...Hartzel had been indicted on a charge of violating the Espionage Act for writing and distributing three pamphlets which, the Court pointed out, "depict the war as a gross betrayal of America, denounce our English allies and the Jews, and assail in reckless terms the integrity and patriotism of the President of the United States...
...A year or two from now there will be another D-Day, begun without bugles or fanfare, for it will mark the end, not the beginning, of a gigantic military venture...
...Louis Post-Dispatch) AGREEMENT by House and Senate conferees on legislation to extend FSA for one year clears the way for appropriations which will give this agency the funds on which to operate and $96,710,000 of loan money with which to continue its aid to small farmers...
...Nor was the majority "unmindful of the fact that the United States is now engaged in a total war for national survival...
...Congress, too long laggard in attacking the vital problem, is at last stirring to the challenge...
...Its two decisions constitute a rebuke to our Walter Winchells and Martin Dieses, who would fight lies and intolerance with suppression, intimidation, imprisonment, and more intolerance...
...The Kilgore plan provides for the productive, democratic use of the vast war plants built and subsidized by the Government...
...Baumgartner came to the United States in 1927 and obtained naturalization papers in 1932...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 26
