Evening star., 1943-01-02

a TO- because
you can't have
Henry McLemore. the man who
has set his heart on leading the
world out of tthe wilderness going
around in ordinary headgear. He
must have halo at least four sizes
larger than the one that hung on
Woodrow Wilson's hatrack.
The one the founders OF the
'Halo-for Henry" Club has in mind
must be as large as the large
thoughts swimming around in his
head.
Mr.. Wallace can't see the war for
looking at the peace. While our
enemies are shooting American boys
in the belly, the throat, the eyes,
and the mouth, bombing them,
bayoneting them, sniping them and
subjecting them to every known
human agony, he sits in a big Of
flee and tells harmless dictaphone
how his Iowa heart beats for the
/ NOlld, Oh lllCll lllCluucu.
One of Mr.. Wallaces suggestions
for retaliation against our enemies
is that we supervise their schools
after the war is won and see to it
that the little Germans, Japs and
Italians do not have their little
minds poisoned in the future by the -
naughty leaders. I suppose that
Mr.. Wallace's supervision of the
little Axis kiddies would not only
include better erasers, stronger
lighting, more milk at recess, but
constant repeating of pledges such
as this:
Il promise never to bomb Pearl
Harbor on Sunday, and under a
flag Of truce"
II promise never to slaughter in
nocent thousands of Poles, Belgians
and Dutch"
Il swear that I will never Stao a
helpless country in the back"
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Mr.. Wallace speaks of furnishing
the guilty leaders" He intimates
that by swinging a dozen or two
high ranking officials from the gall
lows, World War II will be avenged.
That doesn't go in my book, and
I don't think it goes in the books of
most of the people of the United
Nations.
Is Hitler any worse than the pilot
of the pursuit ship which strafed
helpless civilian stragglers on the
roads Of France? Is Goebbels any
worse than the bombardier who
opened his bomb bays at roof-top
height over a covering Rotterdam?
Are any of the leaders any worse
than their followers who openly
and gladly committed every horror
known to man. and for the greater
part on helpless people?
Mr.. Wallace is a part and parcel
of the New Deal. and the New Deal
Is supposed to be chiefly interested
in the little man, the little people,
the common folk. I would sug-
gest to him that before he gets
another national hook-up and
sounds off for all the world to
hear, that he poll the little people
of the world. He is speaking for
them, you know They make up
most of the world.
Let him get the opinion Of the
enslaved Poles, the crushed Czechs.
the starving Greeks, the battered.
Inundated and heart-broken Jews
of Europe. Let him sound out the
little people of all the other coun-
tries who have felt the merciless
fire and flame of the Axis hordes.
After he had taken this poll, then
let him speak for them. If they
dream of Utopia from their con-
centration camps, if they pray and
hope for sweetness and light for
their barbarian masters, then let
Mr.. Wallace say so, but If they tell
him that those who brought all this
misery to the world should get their
come -uppance, then let the little
people be heard, and let the Axis
get its come-uppance.
Wonder how the boys in Guadal-
canal feel about Mr.. Wallaces
speech? Wonder if they wouldn't
rather hear the Vice President say,
as they battle in the hell of the
jungles, that some day the Japs
who seek to kill them will be paid
In full.
The same is true of the boys who
are carrying the battle to the enemy
| in Africa. Dirty, burned thirsty.
hungry, how do you think they
| feel about establishing a peace that
will feed, fatten, and generally de-
light the enemy that is working
"a hours day to kill or cripple
them?
Get your mind on the war, Mr..
Wallace. Think more about our
boys who are dying in it than Of
the people who are killing them.
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