Ruml beat Treasury to it –
Democratic plan called tax relief for the wealthy
Knutson opens debate with charge that discounts really mean forgiveness; says Carlson plan helps all
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Ruml beat Treasury to it –
Food production agency created by Roosevelt
Administrator of new unit within Agricultural Department is banker Chester C. Davis
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Woman draft hits family, foe says
Washington (UP) –
Mrs. Mildred Scott Olmstead, of Philadelphia, director of the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee today that the Austin-Wadsworth labor draft bill would “strike at the very root of American society – the family.”
She declared that juvenile delinquency had risen 82% in the Philadelphia area among girls under 16 during 1941-42. For girls from 16 to 18, the rise was 26%, she said.
Mrs. Olmstead declared:
You cannot stem this tide without strengthening home life. And women must be encouraged to maintain it, rather than discouraged.
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Messina base hit by U.S. Liberators
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Fortress raid on Rennes called ‘most devastating’
U.S. bomber chief in England says French railway control point knocked out for long time
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer
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Roosevelt adopts silence strategy in Congress revolt
President believed planning veto counterattack against Ruml Plan but is stymied in fight over $25,000 salary limit
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
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Flier has grandstand seat at sinking of 2 Jap ships
U.S. sailors en route to bombard Solomons base catch enemy destroyers napping
By Francis McCarthy, United Press staff writer
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Allied bombers soften up Jap bases in New Guinea
30,000 rounds of machine-gun bullets poured into garrisons at Mubo, southeast of Salamaua
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Nazi Air Force leading way to enemy collapse
Deterioration of German flying power evident in North Africa
By Edward W. Beattie, United Press staff writer
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Editorial: United States of Europe
When Prime Minister Churchill last Sunday suggested the grouping or confederation of European states, he was not grabbing a fancy idea out of the blue. It has been advocated by leading European statesmen for 30 years, and was proposed to the League of Nations by Briand in 1929. Mr. Churchill as early as 1930 wrote in favor of a “United States of Europe.”
By happy coincidence, or perhaps by design, Mr. Churchill now publicizes this idea on the eve of the fifth Pan-European Conference, which opens tomorrow in New York. The conference is led by Count R. N. Coudenhove-Kalergi, former Briand associate, head of New York University’s Seminar for Postwar European Federation.
Others connected with this conference include: Former Premier van Zeeland of Belgium, former Premier Hodža of Czechoslovakia, former Foreign Ministers of Norway, Finland, Spain; distinguished British, French, Polish, Danish, Greek, Romanian and Yugoslav representatives; the German Thomas Mann, and the American diplomat, William C. Bullitt.
The movement is not without opposition from some factions of the governments-in-exile, which still stress extreme nationalism. By a strange paradox of war, however, this old dream may be easier to realize now than ever before, for several practical reasons:
Europe learned the hard way that the pre-war division into small states, trade barriers, political balances of power, and competing armaments, did not work; they produced neither prosperity nor security, but the weakness which made each and all easy prey for Nazi conquest.
Hitler, by attempting to impose a conqueror’s unity on Europe and destroying many economic lines and some political frontiers, has unwillingly driven the separate nationalities into a common defensive alliance.
But much of the most powerful argument for European federation is the historic fact that nothing less can give the smaller peoples a better chance for security on a continent which Germany – by sheer population, natural resources, industrial organization, and geographic position – can otherwise dominate. Germany or Russia, or Germany-Russia, are too powerful for a divided Europe.
A United States of Europe, including a chastened German population, might provide the prosperous and peaceful Europe, with which Britain, Russia, China and the United States of America could cooperate for international order and security.
But the European people themselves must be allowed to make a free choice. It is not for us, or other large powers, to impose any system on them.
Editorial: Send more V-mail!
The government is urging more widespread and frequent use of V-mail for communicating with men overseas in the Armed Forces, and the campaign should serve as a reminder to all of us that nothing is more important to a soldier or sailor far from home than letters.
Mail for the men still in this country is vital enough, but distance and hazardous passage make it doubly valuable to the men overseas. Life in Africa, as Ernie Pyle has testified, and in the Solomons, and Iceland, and a hundred other outposts, is down to barest essentials. Just being alive is itself a luxury.
We can’t, individually, send missing comforts to relatives and friends abroad, but we can write to them, with a guarantee of swift delivery of our letters by V-mail.
V-mail has a priority over all other types of mail. Most of it goes by plane. V-mail has gone to Australia in as short a time as seven days, to Hawaii in three days.
If a roll of V-mail film is lost, the letter is not lost, because another roll can be reproduced and forwarded.
V-mail weighs 1/65th as much as ordinary mail – 1,600 letters can be converted into a roll of V-mail film which takes up only a little more space than a pack of cigarettes. That’s why delivery is faster and surer.
And V-mail is private. The photographing machines operate at tremendous speed and only the censor reads the letter. And he reads all mail.
Use V-mail for soldiers and sailors abroad. And use it often. Those men need letters!