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...Ashamed." Last week in Cleveland another hero spoke up bluntly. After listening to the Kiwanis Club discuss when & where to hold its picnic, up rose Lieut. William M. Bower, one of the 80 airmen who bombed Tokyo. Said he: "It's no picnic out there for your sons. They are having no good times. It is no time for good times. I'm disappointed by what I have found since I got back to my country. I'm disappointed at the failure of the people to realize that we are in a war-a war that...
Whatever the intrinsic merits of this speech, its effect in Britain will be heavily influenced by the reputation of the speaker. He was huge, hulking Commander Robert Tatton Bower, 48, onetime British Navy boxing champion and World War I submarine officer, whose opinions are more questionable than his fluency. In 1938, when Polish-descended, English-born Emanuel Shinwell, Laborite M.P., was attacking the Government's policy on the Spanish War, Commander Bower suddenly rose and yelled: "Go back to Poland!" Small, sinewy Emanuel Shinwell walked across the House of Commons and smacked Commander Bower so hard...
...Commander Bower criticized Chief of Naval Staff Sir Dudley Pound for the conduct of the Narvik evacuation. Not content with sticking to military matters, such as the liaison, or lack of it, between the Navy and the R.A.F., the Commander talked about the Admiralty's "Gestapo methods" and said: "We are not fighting against Hitler in order to set up the First Lord of the Admiralty (A. V. Alexander) as a little pinchbeck Hitler with a tin-pot staff...
Millions of Britons last week might have been inclined to feel that there was some pith in Commander Bower's remarks on Winston Churchill's war effort. But, considering his past references to Emanuel Shinwell's Polish ancestry, his bracketing of the First Lord, however fantastically, with Britain's worst enemy. Commander Bower seemed loose-tongued and his motives dubious. His speech only pointed up the fact that, although much of the criticism of Winston Churchill has come from the extreme left, he has been catching it just as hard from the far right...
Edwin Heister will lead the Lord Jeffs to the fray, with Art Palmer, John Bower, Bob Pfeifer, Jim Alexander, Bob Izant, Barold Still, Lee Pattison, and Bill Traver filling the ranks of the home forces...