U.S. At War: Questions for the People

Standing beneath the stern stone faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt looming from South Dakota's Mt. Rushmore, Wendell Willkie last week asked his fellow U.S. citizens some pregnant questions: "Are you engaged in delusive and wish ful thinking that the war will end shortly, when we have not yet even entered Eu rope and have reconquered only one of the multitude of islands in the South Pacific? "Are you one of those who understands the destructive forces of inflation, yet joins pressure groups whose demands, if met, mean inflation inevitably? "Are you one of those . . . who...

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