Living costs show gain in 60 out of 62 cities
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Women 20-50 wanted by Marines for assignments to tailor shops
Those accepted to be given ratings of TSgts.; educational and physical requirements may be waived
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doesn’t it make sense for to take old grandmoms to tailor stuff? They make it with love.
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President Roosevelt’s address to the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture
June 7, 1943, 5:50 p.m. EWT
Broadcast audio:
It gives me great pleasure to welcome to the White House you who have served so splendidly at the epoch-making United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture.
I use that word “epoch-making” advisedly. The Conference could not have failed to be significant, because it was the first United Nations Conference; but it has succeeded even beyond our hopes. It is truly epoch-making because, in reaching unanimity upon complex and difficult problems, you have demonstrated beyond question that the United Nations really are united – not only for the prosecution of the war, but for the solution of the many and difficult problems of peace. This Conference has been a living demonstration of the methods by which the conversations of nations of like mind, contemplated by Article VII of the Mutual Aid Agreement, can and will give practical application to the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
You have been dealing with agriculture, the most basic of all human activities; and with food, the most basic of all human needs. Twice as many people are employed in work on food and agriculture as in work in all the other fields of human activity put together. And all people have, in the literal sense of the word, a vital interest in food.
That a child or an adult should get the nourishment necessary for full health is too important a thing to be left to mere chance.
You have recognized that society must accept this responsibility. As you stated in your declaration:
The primary responsibility lies with each nation for seeing that its own people have the food needed for health and life; steps to this end are for national determination. But each nation can fully achieve its goal only if all work together.
And on behalf of the United States, I gladly accept this declaration.
You have gone beyond the general recognition of principles, to deal in specific terms with specific tasks and specific projects.
You have examined the needs of all countries for food and other agricultural products, both as they will exist, or rather, to put it this way, as they will exist in the short-run period of recovery from the devastation of war – the few years when the fighting stops – and as they will exist over the longer run, when our efforts can be fully devoted to expanding the production of food, so that it will be adequate for health the world over, and all through the years to come.
You have surveyed with courage and with realism the magnitude of these problems, and you have reached unanimous agreement that they can, and must – and will – be solved.
It is true that no nation has ever had enough food to feed all of the people as we now know that human beings should be fed. But neither have nations representing over 80% of the world’s two billion inhabitants ever before been joined together to achieve such an aim. Never before have they set out to bend their united efforts to the development of the world’s resources so that all men might seek to attain the food they need.
For the short run, you have pointed out steps that have to be taken, both in increasing supplies and in maintaining the economy of use and coordination of distribution.
In considering our long-range problems, you have surveyed our knowledge of the inadequacy in the quantity and the quality of the diet of peoples in all lands. You have pooled our knowledge of the means of expanding our output, of increasing our agricultural efficiency in every nation, and of adjusting agricultural production to consumption needs. In the fields of both production and consumption you have recognized the need for the better utilization of the knowledge we now have, and for extending still further the boundaries of our knowledge through education and research.
You have called upon your governments individually and collectively to enlarge and improve their activities in these fields.
For the perfection and the rapid execution of these plans, you have recommended the creation of a permanent United Nations organization, and for that I specially thank you. To facilitate and hasten the creation of that organization, and to carry on the work that you have begun until it is permanently set on its feet, you have established an Interim Commission. The government of the United States is honored that you have asked that the Interim Commission have its seat in Washington, and will be glad to take the preliminary action for the establishment of that Commission which you have entrusted to it.
Finally, you have expressed your deep conviction that our goal in this field cannot be attained without forward action in other fields as well. Increased food production must be accompanied by increased industrial production, and by increased purchasing power. There must be measures for dealing with trade barriers, international exchange stability, and international investment. The better use of natural and human resources must be assured to improve the living standard; and, may I add, the better use of these resources without exploitation on the part of any Nation. Many of these questions lie outside of the scope of the work that you have undertaken, but their solution is none the less essential to its success. They require, and I think they shall receive, our united attention.
In the political field, these relationships are equally important. And they work both ways. A sound world agricultural program will depend upon world political security, while that security will in turn be greatly strengthened if each country can be assured of the food it needs. Freedom from want and freedom from fear go hand in hand.
And so I think that our ultimate objective can be simply stated: It is to build for ourselves, meaning for all men everywhere, a world in which each individual human being shall have the opportunity to live out his life in peace; to work productively, earning at least enough for his actual needs and those of his family; to associate with the friends of his choice; to think and worship freely; and to die secure in the knowledge that his children, and their children, shall have the same opportunities.
That objective, as men know from long and bitter experience, will not be easy to achieve. But you and I know, also, that throughout history there has been no more worth-while, no more inspiring challenge.
That challenge will be met.
You have demonstrated beyond question that free peoples all over the world can agree upon a common course of action, and upon common machinery for action. You have brought new hope to the world that, through the establishment of orderly international procedures for the solution of international problems, there will be attained freedom from want and freedom from fear. The United Nations are united in the war against fear and want, as solidly and effectively as they are united on the battlefront in this world war against aggression.
And we are winning that war by action and by unity.
U.S. Navy Department (June 8, 1943)
Communiqué No. 404
South Pacific.
On June 7, during the morning approximately 40 or 50 Japanese Zeros and torpedo bombers were attacked by U.S. fighter planes in the vicinity of the Russell Islands. Nineteen Zeros were shot down and six damaged. U.S. losses were seven planes, but three of the pilots were saved.
North Pacific.
On June 7, an additional 8 Japanese were killed on Attu Island. Eleven more of the enemy killed themselves with grenades after being surrounded by U.S. Army troops in Chichagof Valley. The total known enemy dead as of June 7 is 1,826.
The Pittsburgh Press (June 8, 1943)
Churchill sounds invasion alert
3-way smash at Europe hinted
By Harrison Salisbury, United Press staff writer
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Yankees down 19 Jap planes
U.S. loses 7 aircraft in Solomons air battle
Adms. King, Nimitz map war strategy
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‘I just can’t pay’ –
U.S. bills stenographer for $10 million income tax
Friends ask mink coat gifts; eight propose marriage
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Million and half more men needed
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Daughter of playwright questioned in Chaplin case
Oona O’Neill, 18, denies she knows anything about girl suing film comic
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Going rate set by WLB as pay ceiling
New formula is devised for correcting ‘gross inequities’
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WLB has little headaches, too –
Pay raise loophole found by union window washers
Members resign, set selves up as ‘contractors’ and stay within 8-employee limitations
By Fred W. Perkins, Press Washington correspondent
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Supreme Court to adjourn
Washington –
The Supreme Court today announced that it expects to adjourn for the summer on Monday, June 14.
‘Zoot-suiters’ again feel troops’ wrath
Los Angeles, California (UP) –
Servicemen seeking revenge for assaults by “zoot-suiters” surged through Los Angeles streets early today stripping off the youths’ fancy raiment and sending several to hospitals.
More than 500 soldiers, sailors and Marines marched through the downtown area, charging into theaters, cafés, bars and nightclubs and collaring the wearers of the glad plaid.
Police riot squads were busy all night. Shore patrols and military police patrolled the area trying to remove servicemen, but the truckloads they took out had little effect on the size of the mobs.
Servicemen have been beaten, stabbed and robbed and girls they were escorting have been attacked by the youthful gangsters. Police roundups have had little effect in curbing the hoodlums, although more than 100 were arrested over the weekend.
Most of the zoot-suiters are exempt from the draft because of their criminal backgrounds.
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