A RESOLUTION FOR CONGRESS
A Resolution For Congress ONE New Year's Resolution which Congress could make with great profit to itself and the country is a pledge never to duplicate the shabby performance in the House of...
...In justice to a man we have sharply criticized in the past, it is only fair to say that, in all the steps he has taken since he has become the supreme ruler of Japan, he has displayed a democratic concept unsurpassed by any of our leaders at home or abroad...
...An earnest, articulate group of spokesmen for all branches of organized labor, churches, and education, whose efforts have been aided and coordinated by a small, hard-working band of on-the-spot crusaders, has held the fort in Washington against what once seemed impossible odds...
...A. T. Steele, able Far Eastern correspondent for the New York Herald-Tribune, made this revealing report last week: "We are losing the peace in southern Asia and losing it fast...
...It's a splendid program...
...We don't know where Gen...
...They need every bit of help you can give them...
...The battle is far from won, of course, but there can be no disputing the fact that the majority of Congress shows no disposition to knuckle down to the demands of the dazzling array of bemedaled generals and braided admirals who have strutted their stuff before the House Military Affairs Committee...
...A Fading Faith WHILE America is showing the way to democratic reconstruction in Japan, our policies elsewhere in Asia—and in Europe, for that matter —are helping to wreck the hope for an anti-imperialist peace settlement...
...Small wonder, then, that Rep...
...The legislation, passed in somewhat diluted form in the Senate, was kicked around by House leaders for nearly three months and then trotted out in such emaciated form that even short-sighted tourists in the gallery could see through it...
...Feudalism must be wiped out...
...In all of them I found an almost naive faith in ultimate positive support from the U. S. as leading champion of the lofty - aims set forth in the Atlantic Charter, Four Freedoms, and other much publicized principles of the United Nations, but that faith is melting and will dwindle still more if American policy remains as it is now—aloof, passive, and ambiguous...
...Walker K. Granger, Utah Democrat, blurted out on the floor, as The Progressive reported last week: "My party has never sunk so low in all its history...
...Large estates must be cut up into family units...
...MacArthur gets his economics and we don't care particularly...
...The prevailing mood in this populous area is one of bitter disillusionment over what the Allies have advertised as 'liberation,' but what for millions of Asiatics has come to stand for the return of an old order for which they have no enthusiasm, even in its gaudy new trappings of 'home rule,' 'equal partnership/ 'French union,' or 'eventual' dominion status...
...TTJkEMOCRATIC leaders in the House sandbagged the fight for a more adequate bill by contending that a battle for the Senate bill might result in no bill at all, and that the Democratic Party had to save face by passing "something"—no matter how empty and meaningless...
...2Support the Martin Resolution which would ? postpone a decision on universal peacetime conscription for America until we had exerted our •influence among the other nations of the world to secure "an immediate international agreement whereby compulsory military service shall be wholly eliminated from the policies and practices of all nations...
...The record of Republican lawmakers is hardly more distinguished, for many of them, too, were all too anxious to duck a roll-call vote on this major issue...
...This strategy, however, never materialized...
...Winning A Major Battle "O EPORTS from Washington indicate that the nation's anti-conscription forces have made enormous progress in combating the efforts of Army brass hats to saddle a system of permanent peacetime conscription on the United States...
...It was torpedoed by Administration leaders in the House who went to the group of progressives and begged them not to make a fight for the Administration's own bill—a measure which had been a top priority "must" on President Truman's legislative program...
...In fact, in nearly all other critical controversies in Congress, there has been little or no difference between the majority of Democrats and the majority of Republicans...
...Mac Arthur's Program (From Labor, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods) GENERAL MacArthur insists on "emancipating" Japanese farmers...
...Tell them, on the constructive side, that you: 1Favor the establishment of a military force ? adequate for defense based on a system of voluntary enlistments...
...It should be extended to all lands, including our own...
...Gen...
...A determined band of House liberals planned a showdown battle over the substitute proposal...
...Share-croppers must be given an opportunity to buy on easy terms...
...If you haven't already done so, write your Senators and Representative—especially the latter right now, because the bill is under consideration by the House Committee—and urge them not only to vote, but to work and fight against universal peacetime conscription...
...Government will be required to provide credit, guarantee farm prices, and in other ways improve the economic condition of tillers of the soil...
...And the liberals fell for this cheap plea...
...When the people of all countries own the land they plow and no one owns more than he can cultivate, global peace will be just around the corner...
...In these countries American prestige is very much at stake...
...A Resolution For Congress ONE New Year's Resolution which Congress could make with great profit to itself and the country is a pledge never to duplicate the shabby performance in the House of Representatives a fortnight ago on the Full Employment Bill...
...There was nothing left of the original measure—literally nothing—after the coalition of Tory Democrats and Republicans had stripped it bare of all purpose and meaning...
...If there has been any difference in the Republicans' favor, it is that they have been somewhat less hypocritical in posing as liberals while voting as reactionaries...
...The new Japanese Government is told that its agricultural reforms don't go far enough...
...They were committed to forcing a roll-call vote on the measure as it came from the Senate in order to let the country know who was for and against a modest Full Employment Bill...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 52
