A Little Courage

Like a bone fought over until picked clean, Senator Walter F. George's Reconversion Bill was finally passed by Congress last week and dropped on the President's desk. After more than a month of battling, there was little meat left on the bill; certainly it had few of the muscles needed to handle the Atlantean job of shifting the U.S. back to peace.

The bill provides for an Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, in effect a watered-down version of the job now held by Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes—who has said he...

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