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...blame" for taking "us" to war? No more than anyone else does TIME know the "true" answer to such a loaded question. But to TIME the following is the beginning of sense: the U. S. people went to war because, after more than two years of intense public discussion, the U. S. Government, duly and recently elected by the U. S. people, decided to declare war. Many and complex were the causes leading to this decision made by the President and Congress. To hang any large part of the "blame" on J. P. Morgan & Co. seems to TIME...
...spake Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party in the U. S., when he was questioned at the Institute of Public Affairs in Charlottesville, Va. last July 5. Comrade Browder up to last week's end had not been elevated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. That the U. S. S. R. and Nazi Germany had made up, a shaken world knew...
...eminent and veteran haters of Stalinist Communism as Socialist Norman Thomas proclaimed a final exposure of Stalinist hypocrisy, approaching dissolution of the Communist Party in the U. S. They counted without the Party's resilient internal structure, its genius for rationalization. Its first week in gyration produced no public defections of bigwig Reds, no convincing evidence of mass withdrawals even among its Jewish members. Chiefly evident were changes in the Party's U. S. "line." Hitherto the emphasis was on opposition to Fascism; now it was on Peace (but not, in the Party organs, "at any price...
Wisconsin: Robert S. Schwantes, 16, Lancaster; Lancaster Public School...
Iowa: John P. Schafer, 16, of Lansing; Lansing Public School...