Show GENERAL HUGH S JOHNSON 0 f ff arnst rN sink st v U fact washington D C mcgrady SELECTION the selection of E F mcgrady to advise the war dep department artmont on albot labor relations cou have been improved upon from the govern governments mr point a of view from Gradys Mc it may not be so hot eddie is a dollar a year man he cant afford to be that except on a part time basis after a life of unselfish service for labor unions at wages far below his worth he was getting on he h had ad family obligations in addition he i is s the easiest touch I 1 know if you are out of luck all you have to do to get mccrac Mc Gradys lys money is to ask him for it so he have anything put aside the RCA did one of the most intelligent tell igent 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 of mr RCA would not willingly lose his services and mr mcgrady can make belated pre preparations pa rations 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 it will keep out of labor disputes keeping out take too much of Mc Gradys time except at the arsenals and to a limited extent elsewhere the war department part ment is not an employer it procures its supplies from contractors they will get into some disputes there will be some strikes some of them will delay the rearmament program but it is not the ardys business to horn in that is the business of sidney hillmans hillmann Hill mans labor labar organization or the perkins conciliation service army officers are riot fitted by training background or office to conduct themselves well in the heat or emotion of a strike situation where you cant move men by yelling squads right if the army 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 it is a safe bet that it wont be done while mcgrady is there and that if it is done he wont stay there 0 0 0 appeasement out of the administration are coming private warnings that one great amerlean Ameri ean danger just now is organization and daily growth of appeal ers and their cunning propaganda to stir up public sentiment rent for appeasement pea it easy to define just what is meant by this use of the word appeasement pea as a byword by word grew out of the series of settlements with hitler acceded to by france and england whereby they belched 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 of steel and to preserve the provisions of the treaty of versailles they tossed those little nations to the nazi wolves quite obviously because there was nothing else they could do they had allowed themselves to become too weak and germany to become too strong to do anything else the very word appease taken with the circumstances of those settlements tle ments 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 defense they were used as a narcotic assurance to the british and the french of p peace e a ce in 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 for world and the absolute nece necessity asty 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 I 1 lity 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 dom n either of T the th lecessi necessity essi or the wis scattering mattering our defense over more r 0 territory ory than we can guard do o not ant believe in putting our country couil into a military y situation in which its defense depends on the strength e or weakness of others their bl blunders a or successes we do believe that whether britain wins or does not win we shall never be safe e again without adequate defense of 01 our own that of part our strength is our ou financial soundness and that we it by cannot weaken undertaking to finance the wars of others at a cost which in a long war to which we are a could party rise as high hig h billion dollars dollar as a one hundred if that opinion ion and record is Is meant by what appeasement regard the we word as an epithet argument wi without th |