Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-20
Un-American
Note Turned
Over to FIJI
Letter Writer Advised
TO Get New Slant
BY PAUL MALLON

W Dear Mr.. ..., Cincinnati,
Ohio:
I am emitting the use of your
name, in publishing this reply to
your letter because l do not
believe you can really feel about
our government and our war
cause in the way you have
written me.
When YOU think il over hon
estly with yourself. I know you
will change your mind especially
as you say you have a boy in
service.
But YOU have given expression
TO many of the foolish absurd
tiles that are being passed
around converSationally among
some people in this country who
are either too busy or careless
10 reason out truth for them
selves.
You say:
"The conduct Of the British In
India and the silence OF our
state department proves we are
not in war for -four freedoms.
We have been hoaXed into allow
ing our boys To he sent to all
parts of the world and into buy
ing war bonds. l buy no more
bonds-and IL my boy does not
come back whole some one is
going TO pay"
IF YOU buy no bonds, you may
Il be sure your boy will not
come back whole. This govern
ment will then not have the
money 10 furnish him with the
wc1ponS necessary ~ make hlnl
equal to our enemies. or ~
supply him with good food and
good medical care 10 keep him
well. You can see that.
And if he does not come back
whole. YOU will he the one who
is responsible, not the officials
Of this government, for what
ever are their profcicncies or
inadequacieS in leadership, the
responsibility Of furnishing the
money to supply your boy prop
erly lies, not with them, but with
you.
That's your end Of the war.
II YOU do not hold it up by buy
ing every war bond you can. you
are only Furnishing your own son
and the millions like him in the
service.
IF you want independence for
India, the way 10 get II is 10 win
this war If we do not win il,
what YOU want or what India
wants. viii be immaterial. Hitler
and the japanese imperialists
will decide.
YOU ask:
Il what difference Is IL to the
common man. whether we win or
lose? This war is for the World
Federation Of States league Of
Nations under nom de plume)
i'm which the ruling classes will
have us and the rest Of the world
in the same state as India and
China. They are recapturing the
British empire for the interna-
tional bankers"
We have been attacked
treacherously attacked. Have
you forgotten so soon? We are
fighting, not for the British En-
pire, but for our own lives.
We are fighting for your job,
your son, and his son, your
family, and everything e. this
country means. including your
right TO write letters expressing
your views, even If they be as
ill-founded and despairing as
those you have expressed to me.
Have you ever been in Ger
many, Russia or IN Europe
where workngmen have no
automobiles. or plumbing or ra-
dos in their homes, or dentists,
or freedom, or good food, as
compared with ours?
They GO 10 work on bicycles,
live in novels and exc out
bare. scared existence. Their
standard OF living is less than
half what ours has been.
YOU conclude
what kind Of parents
do you think we are II YOU be-
lieve we are going TO let our
sons be duped In such a manner.
What kind Of an American are
YOU 10 protect such treachery
for the international bankers
and the British Empire ."
| am tho kind Of an American
who wants America 10 survive.
! know II means the survival.
not only Of my ideals, but of my
family.
II I were YOU. I would buy an
American flag. as a symbol 81
your hope that this nation shall
not be plunged by defeat mo
such misery as il never has
seen.
Also turn Off that radio from
Doctor GoebbelS and sign your
real name and identifying adj
dress TO your letters to column
isis
l have looked YOU up in the
Cincinnati telephone and city
directories an find no name