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...have them, of course. That's all I care to say on the subject." The World War I Peace-Shipper continued: "My message to young people, those in uniform and those out of uniform, is simply this: find out the cause of war. That will stop wars quicker than anything I know. I could tell them, but it doesn't seem to work that way, somehow. They must find out for themselves." Asked what he considered the greatest single postwar problem, he replied: "Go to work. That's the answer to everything-. . . greeds, creeds, and boundary lines...
...Connally was an early devotee of Virginia's Woodrow Wilson. He was for the League of Nations and World Court from the start. He was a Big Navy man throughout the '30s. Though he hoped the U.S. could keep out when War II began, he caught on quicker than most, was in the forefront, of the fight for Neutrality Act repeal, Lend-Lease, Selective Service...
...Chicago policeman. He spent his childhood selling papers on the city's streets. Second, his feuding with the Big City's Kelly is temporarily suspended. The new spirit of sweet harmony among Illinois Democrats was keynoted when Tom Courtney announced his candidacy: "Surely there is no quicker or better way of winning the war than by upholding the hands of our President, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...marine gunner's remark to your Mr. Sherrod was just simple truth. In these days you can't pick a better way. The quicker we all realize it the better for our country...
...burning Berlin, of the advancing Red Army, of U.S. advance in the Pacific, there is much to be read and sensed at home: signs and portents, growing tension, expectancy, an air of great events to come. In the streets, in offices, in pubs, the pace is quicker. Uniforms of all nations throng London streets. Young, tough, confident boys are on leave; a great many of them are Americans whose shoulder patches show that they have but one destination...