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Show 1 R GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: Washington, D. C. MrGRADY SELECTION i The selection of E. F. McGrady : to ,dvise the war department on ' Ubor relations couldn't have been 1 improved upon, from the government'! govern-ment'! point of view. From Mr. jIcGrady's, It may not be so hot. 1 Eddie Is a dollar-a-year man. He can't afford to be that except on a part-time basis. After i life of unselfish service for labor unions at wages far below his fforth, he was getting on. He bad family obligations. In addition, j,e is the easiest "touch" I know. U you are out of luck, all you have to do to get McGrady's money is to ask him for it. So he didn't have anything put aside. The RCA did one of the most intelligent in-telligent things in recent industrial management. It employed this great union labor leader to keep its labor relations straight, made him first a director and later a vice president and paid him a salary commensurate with other first lieutenants lieu-tenants of Mr. Sarnoff. RCA would not willingly lose his services, and jlr. McGrady can make belated preparations for his old age. For these reasons, it would be unfair to require him to give up that job. It would also be unnecessary, because if the war department is wise I, will keep out of labor disputes. dis-putes. Keeping out wouldn't take too much of McGrady's time. Except at the arsenals, and to a limited extent elsewhere, the war department is not an employer. It procures its supplies from contractors. contrac-tors. They will get into some disputes. dis-putes. There will be some strikes. Some of them will delay the rearmament rearma-ment program. But it is not the army's business to horn in. That is the business of Sidney Hillman's labor la-bor organization or the Perkins conciliation con-ciliation service. Army officers are not fitted by training, background or office to conduct themselves well in the heat or emotion of a strike situation where you can't move men by yelling: yell-ing: "Squads right." If the army doesn't push this porcupine over to the departments where it belongs, or if it permits them to push it over to the army, some soldier is a sucker. suck-er. It is a safe bet that it won't be done while McGrady is there, and that if it is done he won't stay there. APPEASEMENT' Out of the administration are coming com-ing private warnings that one great American danger just now is organization organ-ization and daily growth of "appeas-ers" "appeas-ers" and their cunning propaganda to stir up public sentiment for "appeasement." "ap-peasement." It isn't easy to define just what is meant by this use of the word. Appeasement, Ap-peasement, as a by-word, grew out of the series of settlements with Hitler Hit-ler acceded to by France and England, Eng-land, whereby they welched on the alliances France, at least, had made with such little nations as Austria and Czechoslovakia, in order to "ring Germany in a cordon sani-taire sani-taire of steel" and to preserve the provisions of the treaty of Versailles. Ver-sailles. They tossed those little nations to the Nazi wolves quite obviously because be-cause there was nothing else they could do. They had allowed themselves them-selves to become too weak and Germany Ger-many to become too strong to do anything else. The very word "appease," taken with the circumstances of 'those settlements, set-tlements, implied that there was some right on the Nazi side. The appeasing concessions were used not as a truce to gain time for all-out all-out defense. They were used as a narcotic assurance to the British and the French of "peace in our time," with an effect that they went on snoring while Germany became stronger and stronger. Some of us began to insist that we prepare, years before Munich and with growing insistence ever since insistence on our own weakness, on the great threat growing in the world and the absolute necessity for American rearmament. Many, if not most, of those who took this stand believe we are not even yet arming effectively. We have preceded and supported every move to speed and increase total defense to the point of American invincibility on this side of the world. Our only point of difference with other equally earnest and sincere Americans is that we do not believe in either the necessity or the wisdom wis-dom of scattering our defense over more territory than we can guard, do not believe in putting our coun-hy coun-hy into a military situation In which its defense depends on the strength or weakness of others their blunders blun-ders or successes. We do believe that, whether Brit-sin Brit-sin wins or does not win, we shall never be safe again without adequate ade-quate defense of our own, that part el our strength is our financial soundness and that we cannot weaken weak-en it by undertaking to finance the ars of others at a cost which, in long war to which we are a party, could rise as high as one hundred "'lion dollars. If that opinion and record is what ls meant by "appeasement," we regard the word as an epithet without with-out argument |