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...with envy; 2) the old principle of live & let live is still a good one; 3) it seems doubtful she's as much worried about the needs of "a thousand American girls" as she is about her getting the Van Horn hands on "a fur coat and a swell watch"; 4) someone should tell Private Van Horn what part intolerance played in starting the war she was just in; 5) she'd be the first to complain if those who have it didn't spend it; 6) what's so much more essential about...
...millions, in transverse migrations, Germans struggled westward out of New Poland, northward out of the Sudetenland and Austria, to swell a nation already overpopulated and reduced in size; while Russians struggled eastward, some out of slavery and some out of voluntary servitude, towards home and an uncertain welcome...
...gale of war had blown itself out, and now a big swell was running: labor unrest. It crashed on every industrial shore in the nation (see Labor), spread beyond the factories. In strike-stormy Detroit, cops clashed with labor-union men picketing a meeting of Rabble-rouser Gerald L. K. Smith's followers, and men went down under blows of swinging nightsticks. High-school children in New York City, Chicago and Gary, Ind., swirled out in a rash of protests, racial disputes and wholesale hooliganism (see EDUCATION...
...private in the Army . . . draw monthly $36. ... I'll bum cigarets when I am broke, but I'll never admire or respect these people who throw thousands of dollars away to show off their kids. . . . Maybe some day I'll have a fur coat and a swell watch, nice home and family-but damn I'll work like hell and raise my family with more sense and value of love and security than any of those 400 class kids will ever have...
...Whereas World War II has so devastated Europe as to force her people to turn Spartan, it has merely been "highly profitable [and] swell for U.S. workers, for farmers, for a majority of Americans." Few Americans realize that in "fighting German Naziism and Jap Shintoism, [the U.S.] is gradually being dragged down to the moral level of what she fights...