WHEN GI'S COME HOME
Coleman, Mcalister
When Gl's Come Home THE VETERAN COMES BACK, by Willard Waller. The Dryden Press. $2.75. WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, by Dixon Wecter. Houghton, Mifflin. $3. Reviewed by McAlister...
...Unlike so many of his fellow professors he can not only describe a situation (they *an all do that) but proceed to lay down a definite program for meeting it...
...Waller, a veteran of World War I and an associate professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, is a courageous realist in the true sense of that much-abused word...
...Dixon Wecter, professor at the University of California, has perhaps a lighter touch than Professor Waller, and takes a less somber view of the problem...
...Prof...
...I hope this book gets into the hands of the key people who have to deal with the readjustment of the veterans and I can't imagine a better man to put at the head of whatever body has to tackle the problem than Willard Waller...
...Reviewed by McAlister Coleman TWO college professors have tackled the complex, contentious problem of the attitudes of the rest of us towards the returning veterans, and have done it forthrightly, with no pedantic airs whatsoever...
...Waller's solution of what he calls our "gravest social problem" but you can't help admiring the breadth of his vision, his sympathy, and understanding of the psychology of the youngsters coming back "to an alien homeland...
...In many respects the two books complement each other...
...His survey of the treatment of our returning soldiers from the time of Shays' Rebellion, after the Revolution, is a magnificent job both of research and writing...
...I commend them both for the earnest consideration of readers of The Progressive...
...Both are "fireballs in the night" warning us of the difficult times ahead "when Johnny comes marching home...
...You may quarrel with Prof...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 45
