Show U 0 W washington D 0 LETTER TO A LONELY MOTHER to a lonely mother with a son on the beachhead in normandy and another in the aleutians Aleut lans ians dear mrs R I 1 have your letter wondering why you should sacrifice the sons you so carefully taught not to hate or to hurt on a bloody beachhead where every minute they must hate and hurt to in order to survive you say that you write and tell your sons that after its over life win will be the same game and well all be ha happy appy but that deep in your heart you know it wont be for or there win will be more wars and more bloodshed all over again naturally you would expect a hard boiled and cynical newspaper man t trained r to look under rocks for or all the seamy side of 0 official life ike to aggei agree 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 1 dont agree somehow or other I 1 have a sneaking I 1 suspicion u that things are not going t to 0 be so bad and that we may be able t to prevent your sons son from rom dof doing ng what his father had to do in N normandy or and maybe I 1 am too much of an optimist but it seems to me looking back ack that we e made a lot of progress toward permanent peace between the last war and this in the end we fa failed I 1 ed but there are a lot of things you do that tall fall the first time or even several times before you finally make the grade kelloggs Kell dream of peace one of these tries which tailed failed was the kellogg treaty to outlaw war old frank B kellogg who wrote that treaty was just an ordinary american citizen from minnesota not much different from the rest of us he was Coolid secretary of state and not a very brilliant one but he had one great dream to outlaw war and he kept pecking away at it and hammering the idea home on th the unwilling governments of europea Europe 1 until the people of europe were too strong tor for their governments and they just had bad to sign the kellogg pact I 1 was with kellogg when n he sailed to europe to sign his pact stood with him la in the dorosy dorcay 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 tn in 1928 had bad no sympathy with the hopes and ideals of the people they represented among them count whose imperturbable face gave no hint bint that four years later he be as foreign minister of japan would be snapping his fingers at the treaty he had bad signed cynical newsmen watching th the e ceremony rem remarked arced that this would be another case of the league of nations an instrument of peace devised by the united states but which the united states would abandon there however they were wrong frank B kellogg of course was ahead of his time but so were most of our great leaders washington jefferson lincoln the history of progress Is a constant succession of men who are ahead of their time stimsons sons fight against war however it did not tall fail until it had bad been used and almost successfully by another man also ahead of his time the man who succeeded kellogg henry L stimson secretary ol of state under hoover was one of the few men in high position who then ben saw clearly signs of approaching wars and who figured that if the world could head off the minor wars in the headfo chae between para guay and bolivia in siberia between russia and china and in na manchuria between japan and china then we could build up a machinery of peace strong enough to head bead off the major war which he knew was coming on the continent of europe his greatest frea test effort was to in mobilize belize the he peace machinery of ili the world ag against a dinst 1 japan in 51 manchuria an and h he e almost made it that he tailed failed was due to an isolationist revolt inside his own hoover cabinet plus the undercutting of british imperialists who put their own selfish empire ahead of world peace I 1 was with mr stimson during part of that trying time I 1 know how heroically he be labored three times in all he be went to europe determined to hew out new machinery tor for peace MAIL BAG capt dan T moore washington thanks tor for the gentle reminder that r radar a d a a r spelled backwards Is I 1 radar r a d a r pat gordon lange camp grant ill III other names for general Don donovant office of strategic services are oh so secret office of synthetic soldiers and the cloak and dagger club its I 1 job ob deals largely with highly secret intelligence some of it behind the enemy lines tradition Js as that to get in you have to be a lican though a few lonely demo chats have been admitted |