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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1944
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LETTER TO THE FAMILY
(From a Soldier on Guadalcanal) i
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IT IS PLEASANT to hear from you after such .
a long period of time, but it is unpleasant to '
learn of your changed conditions or living, which '
I can more readily understand from the change of
m.. own conditions.
It s too bad that you are limited in the use
of y - automobile. I know how it is to walk
through miles and miles of swamp and jungle.
S I u-. erstand. It is too bad to have your choice
of food limited 1 have experienced this, too, I
except there is no choice here. So I understand.
It is too bad that Willie has such little time
for amusement. I am deprived of amusement too.
So I understand. It is too bad that you have to
wait in the rain for transportation. I have to walk
in the rain on post and my transportation and des
tination are uncertain, too. So I understand. It is
too bad that you are being paid so little for work
ing so hard. I get only a fraction of your pay, so
f .ir ' and.
Winning a war is hard on all of us. You work
long nours and so do I. So I understand. But
during these hours I get shot at.
Do you understand?—(Juneau Empire).
BASIC TACTS ON LEND-LEASE
(From the Worcester, Mass. Gazette
November 12, 1943)
T41E PRESIDENT'S report to Congress yester
day on lend-lease in reverse was between our- .
pelves and the British, went right to the point.
He set forth available figures on British repay- (
ments, and with little elaboration permitted those
figures to argue for themselves. They argue well.
Thus, he presented simplified accounts showing
that the British Commonwealth’s expenditures for
lend-lease aid to America as of June 30 were ap
proximately $1,171,000,000, of which $871,000,000
came from the United Kingdom, $106,000,000 from
Australia, $51,000,000 from New Zealand, and $56.
900,000 from India. At present the British Com
monwealth’s reverse lend-lease outlay runs at about
a billion and a quarter dollars a year, in addition
to the raw materials, commodities, and foodstuffs
provided for in program expansions now being set
up.
Similar information appeared a few hours
earlier in the British Exchequer’s white paper on
the same topic. The President sought to estimate
the money value of the reciprocal part of the sys
tem—of the barracks, hospitals, services equipment,
foodstuffs, clothing, and others items. Sir John
Anderson introduced “the money sign" reluctantly
and stressed rather the common effort. But both
official utterances wrere to the same purpose, di
rected at the misgivings which certain members of
Congress hold lest the United States give all and
get nothing.
The President’s figures are welcome and il
luminating. Th# key to lend-lease, forward or re
reverse, is found, however, in two of his sentences.
He said at one point,, “There is, of course, no phy
sical or financial standard of value by which we
can measure the military contribution to the war
on land or sea or in the air which has been made
by our allies or ourselves.” At another point he
said, “It (the statement of British expenditures)
is an indication of the extent to wThich the British
have been able to pool their resources writh ours
so that the needed weapon may be in the hands
of that soldier—whatever may be his nationality—
who can at the proper moment use it most ef
fectively to the defeat of our common enemies.”
Inquiries into lend-lease by Congress are
fine. So vast an operation requires scrutiny. The
Truman committee and the McKellar Senate Ap
propriations Subcommittee have a legitimate field
for intelligent investigation. But certainly it can
not, as the first Truman report did, ignore mutual
aspcets of the operations. It cannot ignore the im
mense saving in ships and time wrhich reverse
lend-lease has given. It cannot ignore the great
factors that dollars and cents will not measure.
The primary yardstick of lend-lease is its parts
in winning the war. If our allies are contributing
their utmost in proportion to their resources (and
they are) lend-lease books are in balance, even
though British reverse payments shown in the
President’s report may be but a fifth of America’s
$5,500,000,000 outlay to the British.
LITERARY
GllDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
"BIC GRANDE TO CAPE HORN."
tf Cerleton Beals (Houghton.
Mifflin. $3.50 u
Probably Carleton Beals’ "Rio
Grande to Cape Horn" is the sort
of book we have needed on Latin
America, in spite of his tendency
to throw in gratuitous anti-New
Deal comment once :n a while
Mr Beals has, of course, a right
to his political opinions, but they
probably would be more useful
outside this book. He speaks con
temptuously of Washington’s plan
to "establish milk routes at every
jungle cross-roads," and then cuts
under his own argument by in
sisting that this same Washington
has done more for hemispheric
solidarity than any other Wash
ington.
What he has to say about Latin
America does make sense. The
average American knows more
about Bali than he does about
Argentina. And when he thinks
about Latin America, he lumps all
the countries in one, much to Mr.
Beals’ disgust. His book is an ef
fort to show wherein our good
neighbors are similar, and how
they differ. He wants us to see
clearly that the coming dominant
strain m most of the countries is
the Indian strain, mixed of course
with other blood. If we are to
have any workable relations with
Latin America, we must take the
trouble, to learn some fundamental
facts.
Latin America Is. Mr. Beals in
dicates, suffering two major and
perhaps healthy shifts of view
, point. She no longer feels closer
to Europe and the Orient than to
North America, nor are the vari
r
ious countries refusing to see each
. other as they once did.
Mr. Beals believes that in spite
of the colossal stupidity of some
of our emissaries, we are making
progress He thinks we could even
solve the Argentinian question if
we approach her economic prob
lems realistically. Latin America
needs to know that we will no
longer treat her as a ragged step
child. and that after the war we
will neither patronize her nor ex
, ploit her as a kind of raw mate
rials warehouse to which we hold
the key.
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shtps before they sent them home.
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the cargo slings and removed
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