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Show Full Accounting Admiral Nimitz pronounced Midway Mid-way a partial accounting for what happened at Pearl Harbor. But Pearl Harbor was more than an attack at-tack on the American navy. It was also an attack on the American home. . ? The navy can settle in full as 'mlJ ocean force, but the American people peo-ple must settle in full as a fighting nation. The Pearl Harbor account will be settled when the last concentration con-centration camp is a public park. And when a worker in Europe has the dignity of a human being, instead in-stead of the standing of a driven slave. It is America's duty to demand de-mand full payment. The question ques-tion of our future depends on how much the enemy is made to answer an-swer for its past. The liberties won on the freezing slopes at Valley Forge were almost lost in a dirty beer cellar in Munich. I While France is bound, while N-I N-I way is in prison, and while Belgiuia is in chains, America will never be fully free. Our monument to Pearl Harbor must be a milestone in world progress. That can only begin to happen when all men realize that the peace cannot be kept while criminal leaders remain in powci-to powci-to start a war. Neiv York Newsreel: The lads from the theatrical publicity pub-licity cages, who leaned on the col-yumists col-yumists (and vice versa) in the uniforms uni-forms of the armed forces . . . The bigshot from the Capitol, who eVv plains why he weekends in N. Y.-, "In Washington the war stops on ' Fridays and starts on Mondays" . . . The blacked-out Pennsy Sta-tion, Sta-tion, a heaven for the soldiers (returning (re-turning to camp) and their sweeties . . . The pool of silence that floods the Plaza after midnight. So still you can hear whispers of nothing . . . Headliners sitting on their thrones of fame and burdened with crowns of worry . . . Actresses entering en-tering joynts chin-deep in Summer ermine, collecting stares. The USO distributes theater and cinema tickets to the men in the local camps and naval bases . . It is done in alphabetical order toVi avoid favoritism . . The other day at the old Paramount Studios in Long Island City (now an army depot) de-pot) the letter "L" was reached and two movie ducats were handed to Carl Laemmle Jr. . . . Young Laemmle was merely the owner of Universal Pictures, and its sale made him a millionaire. The art studios in Greenwich Village which once were stables . . . The big clock on the building at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, where during dur-ing the wee hours of the ayems you can hear the tick-tocks dropping into infinity . . . The tots who used to play cops-and-robbers now playinA Commandos, in the west side street? . . . The huge searchlights interrupting inter-rupting the dimouts by stabbing the planes roaring over Central Park , . . Loafers standing on street corners cor-ners staring at the passersby and tossing away precious hours like cigarette butts . . . Wrinkled charwomen char-women entering million-dollar skyscrapers sky-scrapers every evening to giva them beauty treatments . . . The rains decorating the street puddles. The Most Quoted Observation of the Month: Raymond Clapper, who has looked at Congressmen as a reporter most of his life, let go with both barrels at their didoes. Said he: "People are looking to editorials, editori-als, radio commentators and news- paper columnists for the discussion of public affairs they ought to get from Congress . . . The people don't give a damn what the average Senator Sena-tor or Congressman says . . . They know what you hear in Congress is 99 per cent tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied re-lied on." The Story Tellers: Fortune profiles pro-files John Wesley Dafoe, editor of the Montreal Free Press, calling him Canada's greatest man. For a long time Dafoe screamed warnings against Hitler and prodded his gov't t to action. In short, another "warmonger" "war-monger" who happened to be making mak-ing sense when his hecklers weren't . . . Free World smacks the bulls-eye bulls-eye with a piece on Reinhard Heydrich, Hey-drich, who was presented with a skinful of slugs by Czech patriots. The monthly reveals Heydrich as the flunkey who did the work that was too dirty even for Himmler. Meaning Mean-ing that with the right number of promotions he could have won the rank of rat. Typewriter Ribbons: Will Rogers: There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail . . . Heywood Broun: Of all the easy jobs in the world, column conducting conduct-ing is the second softest. It lags behind nothing but the ministry . . . D. Kilgallcn: He likes little people, and perhaps that's why so many big people like him . . . H. I. Phillips: Phil-lips: As we understand it, Washington Wash-ington is now pessimistic because of all the optimism . . . Fannie Hurst: Easy to bite as a dentist. Buy Wnr Bonds- |