AN ASTOUNDING STATEMENT
An Astounding Statement SEX. HOMER CAPEHART, Indiana Republican, has been waging a relentless campaign in recent weeks for the United States to formulate and announce the terms upon which a...
...Reporting from Germany last wreek, Dorothy Thompson told of receiving this letter from a GI in the American occupation forces: "Won't you, please, tell the American people about this non-fraternization business...
...How can we ever have peace, unless we create understanding...
...How can we ever have re-education, if we can't speak to people...
...There was exemplified the strength of your Filipino character—height of your stature as a race—an adequate answer to those who would question your spiritual capacity for self-government...
...I was told I was fighting this war for the Four Freedoms, including freedom of speech...
...Considering Sen...
...Hitting at the doctrine of white imperialism that Filipinos lack the racial characteristics essential to self-government, MacArthur's statesmanlike words might well stand as America's policy for the whole Orient: '"'It'is the courage, fortitude and resiliency of your people that has permitted this city of Manila Co rise above the destruction of last February without starvation, without food riots, or other disorder, and without epidemic...
...Last week Sen...
...Our officials had before them the example of the last war when non-fraternization, as Prof...
...Douglas MacArthur to the opening session of the Filipino Congress should be given the widest circulation possible among the people of the Far East...
...Alben Barkley, Democratic floor-leader, arose to answer Sen...
...He believes, along with millions of other Americans, that the Unconditional Surrender formula, is prolonging the war unnecessarily, add that it must be replaced by a dynamic and meaningful statement of American democratic objectives which would split the Japanese people away from their war-lords...
...Barkley's amazing statement serves to underscore again the vital necessity for putting an end to the outrageous secrecy which has marked the political conduct of this war...
...MacArthur's statesmanship'as it is of his great record as a soldier...
...They want to know now- if Japan has offered peace terms and what they are...
...Barkley's statement against the background of conditions in Japan, the American people have high cause for grave concern...
...a victory of the practical common sense of the average GI in the field over the blundering nonsense of the chair-borne strategists in Washington...
...They face the mounting fury of our powerful air arm...
...As a matter of fact non-fraternization as between some of our high officials and former Nazis seems not to apply...
...Their struggle against the enemy during the dreary years of occupation is one of the unforgettable epics of the war...
...A Ride To The Ashcan THE Anglo-American policy of non-fraterniza-tion, which prevents occupation troops, from associating with Germans in any way, has how been launched on a well-merited ride to the ashcan...
...We owe it to them and to ourselves as architects of a new era of western relations in the Orient to give them every aid as they set out for themselves as a free and independent nation...
...What can our peace terms be, if a prominent Administration leader can say publicly that the people of Japan would prefer to endure their present suffering and even more misery in the future than to submit to the peace terms we have to offer...
...The heroic fight of the Filipinos with our troops on Bataan is history...
...Mac-Arthur...
...MacArthur's Statesmanship TP we are to offset the effects of the odious and -¦- loud-mouthed insults so gratuitously hurled at the people of the Orient by such men as Admiral William (Bull) Halsey, the recent address of Gen...
...Starvation, epidemics, and pestilence threaten...
...We have appointed a former pro-Nazi as our puppet in Bavaria and a Hitlerite as police president in Munich...
...THERE has never been any sense to non-fraternization and there never will be until those who conjure up such nonsense find some way to people the world with robots...
...Sen...
...It isn't bad enough that we have chosen to treat our troops as school children, but we are forcing them to witness the Russians giving us a lesson in common sense...
...Can it be that we have devised something that could be that inhuman...
...HOMER CAPEHART, Indiana Republican, has been waging a relentless campaign in recent weeks for the United States to formulate and announce the terms upon which a Japanese surrender will be accepted...
...We know that the people of Japan are living in a virtual hell of flame and flying steel...
...It is to our eternal shame that totalitarian Russia, whom we frequently accuse of minimizing the human equation, should have adopted a policy revealing far deeper comprehension of normal human behavior...
...Demonstrating his understanding of the importance of economic security to the future success of Filipino independence, MacArthur expressed hia confidence that America will extend trade relationship and "do everything else within its power to assist you along the road to your national destiny...
...It should be followed by abolition of the last remnants of a non-fraternization policy which was rooted in the official Nazi nonsense that all Germans are alike...
...But the men who spend their time sticking pins in maps again forgot that they were dealing with human beings...
...America can be as proud of Gen...
...This week's Anglo-American announcement of a relaxation of the stupid, unenforceable policy is a heartening step in the right direction...
...And finally they must look to the day of invasion and occupation...
...The American people demand more than the evasive mumbo-jum-bo of the State Department...
...And, even more important, they must be told what kind of a peace they are expected to underwrite in the Pacific...
...Capehart with this astounding statement: "A definition of surrender terms will do more to stiffen the fanatical attitude of the Japanese people toward this war than anything that could possibly happen...
...Few Americans will disagree with Gen...
...While the Russians encourage political activity on the part of anti-Nazi organizations, especially those which will advance her special aims, our officials use force to break up a demonstration of anti-Nazis against the appointment of a Nazi to a high official position in Cologne...
...Now, for the first time in my life, I can he docked many months' pay and put in the clink for indulging in free speech...
...William B. Hesseltine showed in a recent issue of The Progressive, was a glorious flop...
...See Page 2.) Such a destination would clearly represent a victory of sound understanding of normal human relations over the emotional hysteria of the hate cult...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 30
