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...Politico Palmer advised: "No arguments about international relations or obligations, no black eyes and bloodied noses from arguments about isolation; not a single squawk about the dangers of Communism or the menace of the American Fascist. Just 'to hell with bureaucracy and the bureaucrats...
...Elected, without opposition, as their National Commander Warren H. Atherton, 52, Stockton (Calif.) lawyer, long time Legion politico. Commander Atherton favors U.S. postwar international cooperation; and said of labor, "The Legion is making no attack upon labor as such...
Among well-known citizens who want an international police force after the war are Vice President Henry Wallace, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Ambassador John Winant, Republican hopeful Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Philip Murray of the C.I.O., Matthew Woll of the A.F. of L., and Politico-Pundits Dorothy Thompson, Edgar Ansel Mowrer and Max Eastman. The president of the British Section of the New Commonwealth Society, for more than a decade the most vocal and powerful British group backing an international police force, is none other than Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...
Many a U.S. politico mulled over these facts this week. For the first time in history, soldiers & sailors will find it easy, under a law passed by Congress in 1942, to vote in next year's Presidential election. For the first time in history, the Army & Navy form a potent voting force-18% of 1940's vote, enough ballots to have decided all but one of the past Presidential elections...
...nearly five of his 30 minutes, Franklin Roosevelt talked on a subject which no U.S. politico can henceforth forget. He laid down an official Administration program to take care of returning soldiers at the end of the war, thus warming the firesides in Sicily and chilling the hearts of Republicans. The bidding had begun...