Show J DR W EA ON ww Washington D. D C. C LETTER TO A LONELY MOTHER To a lonely mother with a son on the beachhead in Normandy and another in the Aleutians Dear Mrs R. R I have your letter wondering why you should sacrifice the sons you so carefully taught not notto notto notto to hate or to hurt on a bloody beachhead beachhead beach beach- head where every minute they must hate and hurt in order to survive You say that you write and tell your sons that after its it's over life will be the same and well we'll all be happy but that deep in your heart you know it wont won't be for there will be more wars and more bloodshed blood shed all over again Naturally you would expect a hard-boiled hard and cynical newspaper newspaperman man trained to look under rocks for all the seamy side of official life to agree gree with you that we will have more wars and that your boy on the Normandy beachhead is making his sacrifice in vain But somehow or other I dont don't agree Somehow or other I have a sneaking suspicion that things are not going to be so I bad and that we may be able to prevent your sons son's son from doing what his father had to do in Nor Nor- mandy Maybe I am too much of an optimist optimist optimist mist but it seems to me looking lookingback lookingback lookingback back that we made a lot of progress toward permanent peace between the last war and this In the end we failed But there are a lot of things you do that fail the first time or even several times before you fin a 11 11 ma k th h. h A d U HUf y inane anor e me UI e gi 6 Bra e. e Kelloggs Kellogg's Dream of ot Peace One of these tries which failed was the Kellogg Treaty to outlaw war Old Frank B B. B Kellogg who wrote that treaty was just an ordinary American citizen from Minnesota not much different from the rest of us He was Coolidge's secretary of 01 state and not a very brilliant one But he had one great dream dream to to outlaw outlaw outlaw out out- law war And he kept pecking away at it and hammering the idea home on the unwilling governments of Europe until the people of Europe were too strong for their governments governments govern govern- I ments 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 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 gave no hint that four years later he as foreign 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 this would be another case of the League of Nations Nations Nations-an an instrument of peace devised devised devised de de- de- de by the United States but which the United States would abandon There however ever they were wrong Frank B B. B Kellogg of course was ahead of his time But so were most of our great leaders Washington leaders Washington J Jefferson efferson Lincoln The history of progress is a constant succession of men who are ahead of their time Stimsons Stimson's Fight Against War However it did not fail until it had been used used and and almost successfully success success- fully fully fully-by by another man also ahead of his time the man who succeeded Kellogg Henry L. L Stimson secretary of state under Hoover was one of the few men in high position who then saw clearly signs of approaching wars and who figured figured figured fig fig- that if the world could head off ofT the minor wars in hi 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 head off the major war which he knew was coming on the continent of Europe His greatest effort was to mobilize the peace machinery of the world against Japan in inMan Manchuria Man churia And he almost made it it That he 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 world peace I was with Mr Stimson during part of that trying time I know how heroically he labored Three times in all he went to Europe determined to hew out new machinery machinery machiner machin machin- er ery for peace MAIL BAG Capt Dan T. T Moore Washington Thanks for the gentle reminder that r d r spelled backwards is r. r-a-d-a-r. Gordon Lange Camp Grant III Other Other names for General Donovans Donovan's office of strategic strategic stra stra- services are Oh So Secret Office of 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 Rep Republican lican though a few lonely Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- have been admitted |