Show I It I 1 I I tI t r I t Contrasts in the News Nerus whooping whoop The silver lining tribe is and is peaches ing wig that everything cream They oppose an increase for the armed forces in man manpower Although every fact debunks them m they convey the impression that Americans should start ripping have enough phone books books so so they'll I confetti to flip at victory parades in ina ina a few weeks Meanwhile the I Japs are being pushed around in the I Pacific But its it's far from a push push- over From Tarawa came a dose of grim news that froze the facial muscles muscles mus mus- cles ties About marines spearheaded spearheaded spearheaded spear spear- headed the initial assault on that is island island island is- is land but only a few hundred es escaped escaped escaped es- es death or injury A group of senators are giving I our genuine Good Neighbors a coating coating coat coat- coatI I ing jag of mud We refer to the nations I that declared war against Ameri Amen Americas America's Americas America's I cas ca's enemies and have done everything everything every every- i I thing tl ng in their power to aid us Friendly relations between Uncle Sam and most of his neighbors have been a shining light in a darkened word However these senators senators senators sena sena- senaI I tors have been mum when it comes to a neighbor that has been running errands for our enemies and aiding the Axis to kill American soldiers and sailors They look the other way when it comes to doing something something something some some- thing about pro-Nazi pro Argentina Much space has been devoted to sob stories about the suffering of Berliners They come from neutral sources Indeed the bombing of any city isn't a picnic But the Nazis asked for it by starting the war and gloating about the cities they massacred The Nazis gave others a taste of total war Now they're getting it All war is brutal Buried in every report of raids on Berlin are figures about the planes lost by the Allies Lets Let's give pur pur sympathy to the families of the brave fliers who are giving their I lives to end a war they never wanted jar l There has been an avalanche of p postwar plans All AU have one ideal in common Fascism must be wiped out and never allowed to crawl j again gain They know that Fascists in Germany and elsewhere represent great dangers to Americas America's security At the same time many of those idealists can look you straight fin in the eye and insist that we must not deprive Fascists in America of their civil liberties Although they know Fascists here only use freedom freedom free free- dom dour to help them spout their poison The army navy and marines marines marines' are composed of different races creeds religions and political beliefs The he United Nations also have man many of the same differences But they are re strongly united fighting and dying together Their unified strength is winning the war But political political- differences in Washington are hindering hindering hindering hin hin- dering the war And in too many American cities people of different races and religions will not get along with each other Although they are far from the battlefields and are forced to make fewer sacrifices than any fighting man of the United Nations Na Na- they they cant can't match the patriotism patriotism patriotism patri patri- or unity of men in uniform Congress is now orally juggling a a laudable bill To provide economic security for demobilized soldiers That deserves every Americans American's support At the same time Congress is dynamiting the dam of rationing and price control It holds back the flood of inflation If unleashed unleashed unleashed un un- un- un leashed it will blast every Americans American's Americans American's Americans American's Ameri Ameri- cans can's economic security including the Americans who return from the battlefronts c Berlin is being drenched with bombs Headlines about it make thrilling reading We hope it will force the vermin Gernian-vermin to throw in the But wars cant can't be won by wishful thinking as some of our editorialists seem to be doing do do- fag ing ing For contrast we offer a headline from Hitler's newspaper at ata a time when London was being blitzed by the London Bombed Again British Brit sh Soon to Sur Sur- render The Magazines Wendell Willkie is getting sick of that empty phrase too too that that free enterprise echo In his Look piece Mr W. W offered this squelcher Some of the talk we weX X hear about free enterprise or private private vate enterprise is just propaganda on the part of powerful groups who have not practiced real enterprise in ina ina a generation and ha haVe have e no intention of doing so H. H F F. F Armstrong nutshells our war aims in Foreign n Affairs Our aim in this war is the defeat of our enemies and permanent permanent permanent perma perma- nent victory over their minds I Ihas Never in the history of the world has there been more reason to hope for permanent peace than today Victory isn't in the bag but war lov ing nations are in a rut Diplomats t among the peace-loving peace countries have made a vital payment down-payment on a happy world Only the isolationists are trying to wreck those plans Only the jack sneer at every attempt to form a family of nations They insist it wont won't work Yet they the are the same people who said they loved peace and knew how bow to insure it |