Show I The Battle of Washington Here we were fighting a nice quiet peaceful global war against the Axis and getting along pretty well with it and then they had to togo togo togo go and open the second front right in Washington instead of where It was supposed to be in Rome The Battle of Washington involving Vice-President Vice Henry Wallace Vallace and Director Jesse Jones sort of took the country's mind off the main business of licking Hitler and Co and Jimmy Byrnes' Byrnes efforts to negotiate a truce simply increased all the rumpus It was like being comfortably asleep on a dark and silent night and suddenly being aroused from slumber by the next door neighbor yelling Help Hes He's cutting my throat That happens all the time in our national capital where the washing of dirty clothes in public is commonplace despite the Presidents President's Presidents President's Presidents President's Pres Pres- ident's appeal to his boys to lay layoff layoff layoff off squabbling Byrnes tried to toI I smooth it over by saying that as long as men with strong convictions convictions convictions are in government departments departments departments depart depart- ments there will be differences of op opinion nion That doesn't minimize the shock to the little man when he finds that often supposed big men are smaller than they are puffed up to tobe be Honolulu Advertiser |