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Show wimm. Washington, D. C. WON'T BE LONG NOW Macon Reed, ex-Washington newsman, news-man, now a private in the army, has this to say about the new military mili-tary machines which Uncle Sam is so swiftly whipping into shape: "How is it to be in the army? There Is a breath-taking exhilaration in swinging across a parade ground and seeing and feeling the other columns col-umns moving in the effortless, smooth, free march step of the American army marching, marching, march-ing, marching to heaven knows where. At such a moment, and only at such "a moment, one gets a flash perception of the true strength of America, a boundless sweep of irresistible power and I chuckle to myself and think 'What is everybody in Washington in such a fret and worry about?' Mandalay? Lashlo? Trifles, boys, mere trifles. We heard the news of their fall with a yawn and got on with our work. Just wait till we get started. It won't be long now!" WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WAR? At six one morning, Henry Wallace Wal-lace woke up and began thinking about the speech he was going to make in New York. Ideas kept tumbling tum-bling into his mind. Quietly, so as not to disturb Mrs. Wallace, he reached for the dictaphone and began be-gan speaking into it. He dictated to the length of one cylinder, Mrs. Wallace still slept. Next morning, he woke again at six, and did the same thing. On the third morning, he woke at 3:30. This time, he dictated the remainder remain-der of the speech, which ran to 3,000 words. Mrs. Wallace slept on. The vice president still had two weeks to spare before the speaking engagement, but the thoughts had been simmering in his mind, and he wanted to get them down. He wanted want-ed to say not in words hurriedly thrown together on the way to New York what he felt about fighting the war to a finish, then making a peace that will stick. People's Revolution. The general applause to that speech is still reverberating in Washington. Because it was one of the most important speeches of the war. Titled, "The Price of Free World Victory," it was a forecast of l world freedom after victory. Wallace has turned out more words than any other member of the Roosevelt family, including the President. But none of his words have been more significant than this speech before the Free World association asso-ciation in which he said: "Everywhere "Every-where the common people are on the march." It included words of dire warning to Hitler, and also words full of meaning to the future of imperialists, imperial-ists, such as: "No nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations" . . . "The march of freedom free-dom of the past 150 years has been a long-drawn-out people's revolution." revolu-tion." But especially significant were the words: "Those who write the peace must think of the whole world. There can be no privileged peoples." ENEMY ALIENS Some significant things are going on behind-the-scenes in the justice department. With the savageness of a commando attack, Attorney General Biddle has now launched an offensive against all enemy agents in the U. S. A., has given the green light to Big G-Man Hoover to move wherever he wants. This came after Biddle had been prodded by the White House for dawdling. Now, however, he has gathered large dossiers of sensational sensation-al and incontestable evidence, and it looks as if several U. S. Fascists would end up behind the bars. Biggest problem Biddle now faces is German and Italian nationals along the Atlantic seaboard. Army brasshats have been demanding that everyone born in Germany or Italy and still unnaturalized be moved west of the Allegheny mountains. However, this would mean a mass trek numbering perhaps a million. And along the Pacific coast, even the movement of 100,000 Japanese proved a terrific headache. Therefore Biddle is working on the policy of picking out the dangerous groups among Germans Ger-mans and Italians, but leaving those whose loyalty seems OK. Many of them are oldsters who left Europe before the days of dictators. Many even have sons in the V. S. army. However, the job of sorting the loyal from the disloyal is going to be one of the toughest jobs the justice department de-partment ever faced. MERRY-GO-ROUND U. S. farmers are doing so well that government credit agencies report re-port taking in more money in mortgage mort-gage payments than they are lending lend-ing out. Also, many farmers are building up reserve funds against debts in the post-war period. The marine corps has quietly abandoned its high-powered drive to recruit star athletes. Reason: Many of them didn't measure up to the high physical standards required of marines; had flat feet, bad knees, enlarged hearts. |