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...rational cause for vitriolic attacks on workers. Neither threatening workers with army service nor mud-slinging will solve the problem. Paul V. McNutt and the labor management committee of the War Manpower Commission, together with unions and local authorities are beginning to meet it. With sensible thinking and sober action, the obstacle of absentecism can be hurdled. But with the handicap of anti-labor attitudes, the bar can never be cleared...
...protest for his stern denunciations of absenteeism in war plants and general U.S. flabbiness. Union leaders howled bitter reproaches, called him misinformed, reactionary. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced that the World War I ace spoke "as an individual and not as an Army officer." The sober Republican New York Herald Tribune allowed: "It does seem true that the World War ace lacks information on some of the obstacles to the all-out production effort he insists upon...
...this desert army. Talk about spit & polish! The Highland and New Zealand divisions paraded after their ordeal in the desert as though they had come out of Wellington Barracks, and there was an air on the face of every private, a look of that just and sober pride which comes from victory after toil...
...these dangers are less than those that would result from a post-war isolationist reaction. This possibility cannot be permitted. The Wadsworth Bill should be passed as necessary insurance against any effort to retreat again from the responsibility of maintaining collective security. But with its passage must come the sober realization that its misrepresentation after the war could result in a completely undesirable over-emphasis of our armed forces, and those objectives which are accomplished through the use of armed force. Congress is playing with fire, and it must not be allowed to burn out of bounds...
When Ed Stettinius left the stand, his trim dark suit was unwrinkled, his sober maroon tie unrumpled, his white handkerchief still in place in his breast pocket. A new Gallup poll showed 82% of U.S. citizens in favor of Lend-Lease, only 9% opposed. Renewal by Congress appeared to be a mere formality. Not until the Administration's reciprocal trade treaties come up for renewal would its "international" policies be challenged by Congress...