The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-13
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The Old Army Game: Now you're
nearing that the last war was run
off slicker'n a whistle, everybody
lust a-lovin' everybody else, and
cake and ice cream for all +. The
thing that made it so jolly, accord
ing to the recallers, Is that Mr..
Roosevelt wasn't running In
many opinions the depression was
lovely because they can't bear the
thought that FDR helped to end it
=. So here they are again, yell
ing for the heads of the professors"
and philosophers and experts"
cow employed in Washington {.
They are shrieking for business
men" to take over and, in fact, are
making it illegal for anybody not
business man to get into office.
Well, you brought it up, boys . :.
Don't you remember the last time
the business men took over? That
was in 1928 And 1928 was the
year just before 1929 . Want to
hear some more about business
men? They went to Washing
ton in 1882, remember, weeping and
tearing their hair and begging Mr..
Roosevelt to do something for bust
ness There are, of course, good
business men and bad. Business men
set Hitler up in the dictator racket.
Business men wanted to let well
enough alone when the Nazis were
over-running Europe. Business
men let Japan get well stocked up
in oil and scrap and other war
materials Business men formed
cartels with the enemy and pre-
sented our country from employing
its own patents with which to de-
fend itself .. . And, incidentally, the
dreamy-eyed professors like Thur
man Arnold and Leon Henderson,
who exposed all that, were not bust
ness men.
George Sylvester Viereck, accused
of operating against the govt OF
the United States, went on trial
again in Washington recently . .
We just mention it on the assump-
ton you're a reader OF newspapers
which courteously decline to en-
barrass Viereck by parading his
troubles in print >. Some of those
papers prefer to use the space for
attacks on others, who are not
against the government.
On the Fourth of July the Ar
gentina papers cooed at the USA
like an ever-loving sweetie. De-
mocracy was just peachy, those
papers said, you lucky old USA you,
and what wouldn't give to have all
of you come down here and make
us just like you . =. To which
phooey Argentina just had it
self a company revolution with the
politicos putting the snatch on the
Offices and the armies to preserve its
position putting to deal from both
sides Of the deck {. 1t anticipates a
United Nations victory, so it wants
to lineup with the winner d. -. 1t
must not snub the Axis because
too many of it's own biggies are
blood kin to it So it wears
false face to use and talks lovingly
:. II the papers that cheered our
Q6lQUSI dCy ulScu UllC odiliC oii1iS Iva
their country, they'd be slapped out
of existence between editions
Their true feeling toward us was
better expressed when pair OF Its
watch dogs beat up Frank Breese, a
U. 8. correspondent.
General De Gaulle is now getting
the dirtiest of treatment - the old
whispering campaign. Out OF Wash
ington comes word, via persons
thoroughly informed OF the official
view that De Gaulle is making
plans auegedly hostile to the wishes
of tho United Nations . Mebbe
so, but what plans? . De Gaulle
who has fought Hitler more hon
orally and more vigorously than a
lot of Washington stuffed shirts
rates a fairer deal than that :,
II he is not the best man to head
the Free French movement, then the
people should be told why Dur