THE EDITOR RESERVES THE LAST COLUMN
The Editor Reserves The Last Column THE PROGRESSIVE has contended throughout America's participation in World War II that we of the United States have great bargaining power with our Allies—as a...
...They were convinced that such a step would speed Allied arms in France...
...We are in a position to choose whether we shall lead or be led...
...Liberation In Reverse PEARSON illuminated another side of the President's complex personality in a column dealing with Mr...
...If we agree to fight for these drastic conditions and terms of the Allies—a stiffening of their demands since our are making war for democracy...
...Reversal In Chicago THERE have been so many examples of "strange bedfellows" during this war that new combinations hardly cause a raising of eyebrows...
...Wrote Pearson: "F.D.R...
...Through The White House Keyhole DREW PEARSON, the Washington columnist who seems to have a priority post at the White House keyhole, told two curious tales about President Roosevelt during the past fortnight...
...Marshall Field's Chicago Sun expressed petulant dissatisfaction last week with President Roosevelt's refusal to recognize the de Gaulle regime...
...Francis Walter of Pennsylvania presented Mr...
...Churchill's last speech in behalf of Franco, naked power, and expediency, we shall have to speak up in disavowal or end all . talk of peace based on the Four Freedoms...
...Similarly, today, in the light of Mr...
...It is but human nature that with all our resources back of them, they should begin to talk of indemnity and territorial aggrandizement...
...was so adamant that it became a source of some embarrassment...
...Roosevelt's strong personal dislike for Gen...
...It is precisely a disclosure of this kind which strengthens the conviction of those who oppose the establishment of an international police force on the ground that it could easily become a bloody club to enforce an intolerable status quo and beat down every democratic rebellion against imperialistic domination...
...But the President interrupted him...
...But the President refused to budge...
...The expenditure of "tremendous quantities" of American supplies to strengthen Britain's imperial rule in India—at a time when we need every weapon we can lay our hands on to whip the Axis—ought to be the subject of a thoroughgoing Congressional inquiry, even if it can't be launched, for political reasons, until after the election...
...The Editor Reserves The Last Column THE PROGRESSIVE has contended throughout America's participation in World War II that we of the United States have great bargaining power with our Allies—as a result of enormous contributions of men, money, and materials—and that we should use that bargaining power to exact pledges for a democratic, anti-imperialist peace settlement...
...In the first one, Pearson reported that Rep...
...Italics mine...
...The fact that its voice was unusually shrill could be attributed to the fact that its hero, F.D.R., was snuggled against none other than Col...
...Anniversary It was four years ago this week that the present management took over The Progressive...
...The columnist pointed out that virtually all concerned—the State Department, the War Department, the British Foreign Office, and Gen...
...Charles de Gaulle...
...M.H.R...
...Eisenhower and his associates—urged recognition of de Gaulle before the invasion started...
...We, too, have a choice—to lead the way toward a democratic peace which strikes at the causes of war, or be led by the nose down the road to imperialism—which means more war no matter how high-sounding an organization we create to stand guard over the settlement...
...Rep...
...The danger of waiting too long and allowing that bargaining power to dwindle away was summed up best, in a similar situation during World War I, by Sen...
...This casual aside by a columnist friendly to the Administration strikes me as one of the most shocking revelations of the war...
...Walter apologized for presenting such a small part of the Jap's anatomy," Pearson reported from his vantage point...
...There's one in Chicago right now, though, that's worth a line...
...In that period its circulation has grown 500 per cent—largely because we have had the support of a group of subscribers who are more than readers, who are, in the words of James, "doers of the word...
...He has yielded to Churchill on many things, as for instance the shipping of tremendous quantities of U. S. supplies to India, where they are used not for the war, but for putting down potential Indian revolts...
...Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune...
...Roosevelt with a letter opener made from the forearm of a Japanese-soldier killed in the Pacific...
...Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and I want to quote him in that connection on this 19th anniversary of his death: "Already we notice a change in attitude on the part of the Allies—a stiffening of their demands since our entrance into the war," he wrote in this magazine in May, 1917...
...Roosevelt and McCormick are in hearty accord on the de Gaulle-France problem...
...There'll be plenty more such gifts,' he said...
...This is the sort of gift I like to get,'" Pearson quoted the President as saying as it was placed on his desk...
Vol. 8 • June 1944 • No. 26
