THE EDITOR RESERVES THE LAST COLUMN
The Editoi Reserves . The Last Column THE sweeping triumph of Great Britain's Labor Party (See Pages 2 and 5 for more extended analysis) is bound to have far-ranging repercussions on the political...
...Nevertheless, suppression was practiced in Britain, too, on a grand scale, as comment by Alan Wood, London Daily Express correspondent on the Western Front, writing in the Common Wealth Review and quoted in Frank Hanighen's Not Merely Gossip, makes clear...
...Now, Sen...
...And that, of course, is red-hot radicalism for Vermont's Sen...
...I have seen much of the way in which human chivalry is kept alive amid all the sickening bestialities of war...
...There has been more unanimity among Britain's political parties on overseas affairs—with several major exceptions, of course (Spain, for instance)—than most Americans suspect...
...His reaction to the great Labor Party victory in Britain shows a new awareness, however modest, of what the people thought some of the shooting was all about— even if he didn't...
...The most amazing thing about the atrocities in this war is that there have been so few of them...
...I have come up against few instances where the Germans have not treated our prisoners according to the rules, and respected the Red Gross...
...And even if the censor does not object, the newspapers exert their right, under our system of a free press, to suppress anything which contradicts their policy...
...A perfect example, I think, is Sen...
...The Army has not only refused to let Johnson know how many trains they're going to need for troop transport until the last minute, but has paid no attention to his pleading for the release of thousands of experienced railroaders from the armed services to meet the present crisis...
...roared Johnson, pounding the table...
...What steps are you taking to get more men...
...If we maintain the capitalistic system and free government, we will have to improve our flexibility and move quickly to meet economic, political, and international problems...
...Most civilian administrators in Washington run for their storm cellars when the Army brass hats pound the table, especially when Gen...
...Somervell's crowd from Army Service Forces moves in...
...But Johnson, who has the man-killing job of providing transportation for our vast deployment operation and keeping some semblance of civilian transportation functioning, pounds right back at the chair-borne generals...
...Austin...
...They don't even say anymore that they can't tell you the time because of reasons of "military security...
...No one who has followed the day-to-day testimony before the Mead Committee can escape the conclusion that the arrogance of the Washington generals has passed all previous bounds...
...though, of course, I have rarely been permitted to mention the chivalry when it was on the German side...
...The Editoi Reserves . The Last Column THE sweeping triumph of Great Britain's Labor Party (See Pages 2 and 5 for more extended analysis) is bound to have far-ranging repercussions on the political climate of all democracies, where public officials must keep at least one finger wet to the winds...
...Austin is a hard-shelled conservative, and one who was hot for war-fine phraseg and all—before war was thrust upon tis...
...Suppression And The Free Press Most U. S. dailies have been hammering hard for a harsh peace for Germany, and hence tend to suppress news which might lead American citizens to believe that there is a basic difference between the Nazi officials and the rest of the German people...
...the Senate's Mead Committee asked him the other day...
...In a world round-up of comment on the Labor Party's success, the Associated Press last week noted that the press in India "generally agreed that the change of government was not likely to mean much to India because, as one editor said, 'All British parties have been as one regarding this country.' " * * * A Guy Worth Knowing I have never met him, but J. Monroe Johnson, Director of Defense Transportation, sounds like a guy worth knowing...
...Interpretation From India American liberals who expect an early liquidation of British imperialism as a result of the Labor triumph are bound to be sorely disappointed...
...We are confronted [by the Labor Party's victory] with the greatest attack on free economy in history...
...What pleases me most is the dawning realization, in the fortress of reaction in this country, that the people believed those phrases about wresting a better world out of the war—even if the phrasemakers didn't...
...Warren Austin, the Vermont Republican...
...They just tell you it'a none of your business period...
...M.H.R...
...By yelling my head off...
...The British press has been somewhat fairer in its coverage, and Americans returning from England report a far healthier state of mind there...
Vol. 9 • August 1945 • No. 32
