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Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, away three and a half years from editing Manhattan's pinko tabloid PM, cast a returned-war-veteran's eye on his strike-stricken homeland, bubbled happily in his first editorial: "Everybody else seems terribly upset . . . and I discover I feel fine about it."' Reason for feeling fine: 1) the auto strikers' solidarity; 2) the "exciting new note of unity" in the telephone and wire strikes; 3) the lack of complacency among industrialists; 4) the homesick G.I.s' "refusal ... to be content with the malarkey." Summed up happy Veteran Ingersoll: "I am sorry...
...first-day headline: HE'S A GOOD BOY, SOBS G.I.'S MOTHER. A Page One picture was captioned: Grief-Stricken Parents. The news lead read: "A red, white & blue sign reading 'Welcome Home' hangs on the front door of the little frame home...
Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...
This aftermath of war had its yeasty effect upon the minds of the Filipino people; unrest and political dissension multiplied in the hot & humid atmosphere of peace. The homeless, poverty-stricken masses had watched cynically as members of the Philippines Congress (many of whom had kept their jobs under the Japanese) voted themselves full salaries for the last three years. The wartime bitter ness over collaboration still licked and smoked through all ranks of Filipino society...
...word must have been passed even in the deepest and blackest holes of these poverty-stricken countries that there was a new deal on, forceful rule was out, and equality because you're a HUMAN BEING in 11 The Indonesians try to rule their own country, the Annamese revolt against the return of French rule, and they're cut down by machine-gun fire like animals. I can't understand the mental make-up of people who were themselves just released from the yoke of the vanquished and now take up the mantle of Conqueror again...