Action, Action, Action!

Each day's news came like a dose of gall & wormwood, each morning's headlines made the morning coffee bitter. The U.S. looked at the management of the war, and found it bad.

Some people found it bad enough to be frightening. In New York City a committee called Citizens For Victory (most prominent officers: Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, Fiscal Expert Harry Scherman, Editor Walter Millis) wrote an advertisement this week under the glaring banner: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS COUNTRY? The ad went over the same barren, dreary ground as the daily headlines:...

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