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Your article on "Tinsel & Ribbon" (TIME, Jan. 24) struck upon a sore subject to many servicemen. The following anecdote may be cited...
Captain Hubler's article, "Winning Medals and Alienating People," kicks off sharply: "To talk about tinsel and ribbon when death is the bitter fashion appears a travesty. It is necessary for two reasons. First, the men concerned with the giving and taking of honors-especially the latter-want to know about it. Second, the whole system of honoring American heroes is falling into disrepute...
...Culbertson "peace plan" is, however, anything but radical. Stripped of the tinsel, it boils down to American domination of the globe, with a "take-it-or-leave-it" label attached. Under this chart of the future, the United States will control twenty percent of the world's military power, with fifteen percent each going to the whole British Empire and Soviet Russia. France, Germany, Italy, and China would get two percent each. Just how this will be achieved without another war is left completely unexplained...
...Americans it was a troubled week. To them the holiday season had never been just a time of tinsel and gifts; it was a great golden week of home and church, of cantatas and midnight mass, of mangers on the family hearth. Now, this year, in the solemnity of a Yuletide of war, the nation felt a vague anxiety...
...trim what Christmas trees there are this year (shortage will be due to lack of woodcutters and transportation), fiberglass garlands and ornaments will replace restricted tinsel and metal spangles...