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...Britain's House of Lords, deplored the bombing of German cities. "I am not for getting the Luftwaffe's tremendous bombing of Belgrade, Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Portsmouth, Coventry, Canterbury and other places of military, industrial and cultural importance. But Hitler is a barbarian. There is no decent person on the Allied side who thinks we should make him our pattern or attempt to beat competitors at that market." The Bishop feared that the R.A.F. bombings would bring Britain a "harvest of hate," and impede postwar relations. And did the R.A.F...
...Every family's right to a decent home...
...eleventh message to Congress on the State of the Union, President Roosevelt gave assurance that "there were no secret treaties or political or financial commitments" made at Cairo and Teheran, declared that a basic essential for future peace is "a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children in all nations" and proposed for the U.S. an "economic bill of rights" which showed that the New Deal is far from dead in the heart of its great sponsor. But the big news of his message-read to Congress by clerks while he nursed his vanishing...
...public welfare." Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich broadly hinted of group pressure on Catholic Mr. Walker. Said he: "[The Postmaster General] possibly had a commitment to carry out somebody else's wishes." From Catholic Bishop John Francis Noll (of Fort Wayne, Ind.), as chairman of the National Organization for Decent Literature, came a statement: "Esquire not even on our disapproved list for a year ... no collusion, no correspondence. ... As far as I know he doesn't think of me in connection with this Esquire business...
...unnatural, dirty, desperate business. The glory that artists once painted, and of which the poets once sang, is departed. War does things to the finer sensibilities. Let it be damned forever. But make no mistake: these men have the sense of mission and will return to help make a decent peace. They believe themselves to be right now the real peacemakers, as I believe they are. They fight to keep America free, and they know it-and to keep war forever away from their children. They want no part in any imperialism. But they are not isolationists. They are realists...