Show a OR W EA ON Washington D D. D C. C LETTER TO A LONELY MOTHER MOTHE R To a lonely mother with a son o othe on n the beachhead in Normandy an and d another in the Aleutians Dear Mrs R. R I have your letter wondering why you should sacrifice the sons you so carefully taught no noto not notto notto t I to hate or to hurt on a bloody beachhead beachhead beach beach- head where every minute they must mus t hate and hurt In order to survive You say that you write and to tell il your sons that after Its It's over lif life lie e will be the same and well we'll all b be beI e I happy but that deep in your heart you know it wont won't be for Cor there j will be more wars and more bloodshed bloodshed bloodshed blood blood- shed all over again I Naturally you would woula expect a hard-boiled hard and cynical newspaper newspaperman man trained to look under rocks fo for tor r all nil the seamy side of ot official life toI to I agree with you that we will have hav e I more wars and that your boy on th the e I Normandy beachhead is making his hit I sacrifice in vain But somehow o or orI r other I dont don't agree Somehow o or r other I have a sneaking suspicion n that tha t things are not going to be s so soI o bad and that we may be able to I prevent your sons son's son from rom doing what his father bad had to do in Nor- Nor I mandy Maybe I am too much of an optimist opts opt r mist but It seems to me lookingback looking lookingback lookingback I back that we made a lot of at progress I toward permanent peace between I the last war and this In the end we failed But there are a lot of things I you do that fail tail the first time or even several times before you finally make the grade I Kelloggs Kellogg's Dream of Peace One of these tries which failed wasI was I the Kellogg Treaty to outlaw war Old Frank B B. B Kellogg who wrote I that treaty was just an ordinary American citizen from Minnesota I not much different from the rest of us He was Coolidge's secretary of state and not a very brilliant one But he had one great dream to dream to outlaw outlaw out out- la law laV V war And he kept pecking away at it and hammering the idea home on the thc unwilling governments of Europe until the people of Europe were too strong for their governments governments govern govern- I ments meets and they just had to sign the Kellogg Pact I was with Kellogg when he sailed to Europe to sign his pact stood with him in the Quai dOrsay in Paris when with a great gold pen given him by the people of Le Havre a city now under bombardment he scratched his signature to the document which carried the hopes and prayers of millions Of course many of at the diplomats who also used that golden pen on that hot August afternoon In 1928 had no sympathy with the hopes and ideals of the people they represented among among them Count whose Imperturbable face tace gave no hint that four years later he as foreign foreign for for- eign minister of Japan would be snapping his fingers at the treaty he had signed Cynical newsmen watching the ceremony remarked that thus thi would be another case of the League of Nations Nations Nations-an an instrument of peace devised devised devised de de- by the United States but which the United States would abandon There however they were wrong Frank B. B Kellogg of course was ahead of his time But so were most of our great leaders Washington leaders Washington Jefferson Lincoln The history of progress is a constant succession of men who are ahead of their time Stimsons Stimson's Fight A Against War However it did not fail until It had been used used and and almost successfully success success- fully by fully by another man also ahead of his time the man who succeeded Kellogg Henry Denry L. L L Stimson secretary of state slate under Hoover noo was one of the few men in high position who then saw clearly signs of approaching wars and who figured figured fig fig- tired that if II the world could head off oft the minor wars In the Chaco between Paraguay and Bolivia in Siberia between Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia and China and In Manchuria Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia between Japan and China then we could build up upa a machinery of peace strong enough to he head oft off the major war which he knew was coming on the continent of or Europe I His Isis greatest effort was to mobilize the peace machinery of the world against Japan in Man Man- churia And he almost made it That he be failed was due to an isolationist revolt inside his own Hoover cabinet plus the undercutting undercutting undercutting under under- cutting of British Imperialists who put their own selfish empire empire empire em em- pire ahead of or world peace c. I was with Mr Stimson during part of that trying time I know how heroically he labored Three times in all all he went to Europe determined to hew out new machinery machin machin- ery cry for peace MAIL BAG AG Capt Dan T. T Moore Washington Thanks for the gentle reminder that r d r spelled backwards is r r. r-a-d-a-r. a d a r pt Gordon Lange Camp Grant Other Ill Other names for General Donovans Donovan's office of strategic strategic stra stra- services are Oh So Secret Office of ot Synthetic Soldiers and The Cloak and Dagger Club Its Job deals largely with highly secret intelligence some of it behind the enemy lines Tradition is that to get in you have to be a Republican lican though a few lonely Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- have been admitted t |