Show i What Our People Think Thin I I The American people are not on only I generally right in their thinking about about 1 public issues but they show more con common come com mon mon sense than their leaders As AI early early- as' as November 1635 1935 1 less than tha three years after atter Hitler came to power powe a Gallup survey revealed that seven seve seven voters In ten favored a r army an and navy and eight out ot of of ten teJi a larger a air force torce After the European war war broke brot out in September 1039 1939 the percentage favoring rearmament rose still higher highe 80 per cent favored a bigger army an end navy and aid 91 01 per cent an expanded a air force torce Yet when in MarCh 1040 sic 1040 l months after war had the begun begun the Ara Army asked for tor money to build 1200 ne new military airplanes Congress fearful ot of noisy isolationist blocs appropriated appropriate enough to build exactly 59 Not until the the- summer of ot 1941 did tl the experts of ot the State Department decide that our trade relations with Japan wei were too liberal Yet as al early as 1938 1038 hr three years i before Pearl Harbor three vote voters out of ot every four tour wanted an embargo placed on the shipment of ot oil sere scrap i metal gasoline and other war materials to Japan Similarly on domestic problems o our people have been far ahead of ot the their leaders on such Issues as you pay i g IT tax legislation wage price-wage control centre wartime f Boning rationing and the need for tor n. n no no- i strike legislation The opinion ot of t the the general L toward unions revea reveals s that many and practices accepted by union leaders leade as a matter of ot course have found r no aCceptance Cf whatever by people outside unions i 8 Among union non-union Americans American only about On one In ln ten favors the closed shop |