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Urging ex-servicemen to "resist the defeatist trend now gaining momentum in America," Edward J. McHale, National Field Secretary of the American Veterans Committee, told the Harvard AVC chapter at its first fall meeting last night in the New Lecture Hall that old-line veterans' groups demonstrated at their recent conventions how incapable they are of meeting today's problems...
After World War I, isolationists and liberals disillusioned with Versailles, alike, joined in temporary alliance to sell this country the defeatist bill of goods that the war had been fought in vain and that this country's "national sovereignty" was contingent on its avoidance of foreign infection from international organizations. And so the upper chamber of this nation's legislature, incidentally breaking Mr. Wilson's heart, decided not to involve the United States in the League of Nations lest this country be drawn into another World War. Russia was not permitted to become a member state of the League...
...labor leaders also had finally realized that price controls had failed, that wage stabilization was dead. Said one last week: "They're all dead. I hate to take a defeatist attitude but there is no other course open. All governmental control over fundamental economic forces must be dropped...
...Collier's, ex-Labor Secretary Fanny Perkins gave a glimpse into the Roosevelt political mind: "I have often been asked what Roosevelt thought of his presidential rivals. ... He thought Hoover a solemn defeatist with no consciousness of people as human beings. Alfred Landon, Roosevelt thought, was a nice fellow who didn't know much. He took an immediate liking to Willkie, and he hadn't expected to. ... For Dewey, Roosevelt had little respect. He expected him to make a bad campaign, and was surprised when he made an excellent...
...homicidal campaign against all Japs "who did not behave like patriots and deny the lie of Japan's defeat." A gang, rounded up outside a small town in the state of Sâo Paulo, was typical. "It is an honor," shouted one gunman, ". . . [to murder] our defeatist countrymen!" For showing "defeatism," 70 Japs have met death in the past five months...