During the World War, it points out, quotas were assigned and enforced, requiring citizens to buy bonds even if they had to borrow to do so. In the present war, while there were no quotas, there was subtle coercion in that there were deductions made from employees' pay checks, albeit deductions which were voluntary.

Unlike in the previous war, in which bonds were sold at par value, and, in a depressed post-war economy, were often sold off at less than face value, the new E and F series bonds were sold below par and so could be sold, within a year of the time of purchase, for that which the buyer purchased them. Short-term redemption was not troubling to the Treasury Department as it was able to use the funds without interest for a year.

The Navy Department had responded to Admiral Halsey's initial glowing proclamation of victory over the Japanese Fleet by telling him that it was not so decisive as he claimed and to maintain a lid on his news releases.

But General MacArthur eclipsed any such effort when he publicly declared the victory as a great one. The President then took his cue from the General and called a press conference to announce the greatest naval victory of the war.

The previous week, the Navy chief of press relations stated that the victory had not materially shortened the war.

One of the actions which had lessened the effectiveness of the victory was that Admiral Thomas Kincaid's Fleet, including the older ships damaged at Pearl Harbor, was supposed to act as a decoy to attract the Japanese Navy while Admiral Halsey would bring to bear on the enemy his more modern ships. But Admiral Halsey was diverted from the plan by part of the Japanese Navy moving to the south, to which Admiral Halsey gave chase. Thus, the plan never was fully implemented to trap the Japanese Fleet.

Mr. Pearson next informs that big business had found a way during the war to avoid anti-trust suits brought by the Government. Since anti-trust suits had to receive the imprimatur of both the Army and Navy to assure that no vital industry would be adversely affected, the companies got their friends in the Army and Navy to tip them of coming suits and then tried to prevail upon the Army and Navy to block them.

Nevertheless, a number of anti-trust suits were slated by Attorney General Biddle, including: seeking to break up the international diamond cartel controlled by the British in South Africa; breaking up a few foreign and domestic companies' lock on the sale of electrical goods; breaking up the monopoly held by Eastman Kodak on motion picture equipment; breaking up the monopoly on ball bearings held by SKF; making the machine tools industry more competitive; likewise, non-ferrous metals producers; and farm machinery, with an eye toward reducing prices.

The shift to civilian jobs was out of a striking fear that the war jobs would soon end and the workers would find themselves unemployed, with a rush to the civilian market by war workers and returning soldiers alike. So, the workers were quitting early to grab a civilian factory job.

She reminds of the great present sacrifice on the battlefields of France, Belgium, and Germany by American men, fighting on through the winter, a winter which would alternate between rain, snow, and thaw, leaving ground muddy, in some ways therefore worse than the constantly frozen turf of the Eastern front on which the Russians fought.

One of the problems, she asserts, was that Americans did not celebrate their victories in the war as did the Russians and British. More recognition was due each victory to instill in the workers a sense of pride in the accomplishment and the need to continue. She cites as example of that gone largely absent elaborate note the great victory in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea--apparently not yet privy to the same information which had motivated Drew Pearson to write of there having been too much made of that victory by the President, General MacArthur, and Admiral Halsey.

But, says Mr. Childs, if the Senate was going to be intimidated by special interest groups, regardless of the election in which the people plainly rejected all vestiges of isolationism, then the country was no better off in terms of internationalism for the post-war world.

The oil industry was afraid of the prospect of cartels governing the international oil trade. But such was an inevitability and the United States could no more govern the oil producing states than those states could govern the United States.

The Senate meanwhile needed to reckon with the fact that the oil interests, who uniformly had opposed the President in the election, had lost.

He does not mention the flap over the President's having said, by his own admission, "...[T]he damn thing won't work," or, by Time's rendition, "The goddamned thing won't work," in relation to the temporarily stuck lever on the voting machine in Hyde Park on election day. The Glendale Ministerial Association of Glendale, California, had demanded originally, based on the Time report, that the President apologize and mend his ways. Based on his amendment to the report, they had accepted his admission as better than an apology and, themselves, apologized for having thought ill of the President's speech.

No one has imparted what General Patton had to say of the whole matter.

In any event, Dr. Spaugh kept his columns short and thus did not have to endure daily the problem of tangled keys and resulting reaction to that condition.

Apparently, his voting booth worked alright, too.

When Mr. Boyle had first disembarked from the ship to head for shore aboard the assault boat at Fedala two years earlier, he had donned his heavy combat jacket. A soldier looking on told him that if he wore it and was pitched into the water, he would drown. He took it off. Two hours later, the boat crashed into a coral reef sending the inhabitants into the drink. He was able easily to swim ashore in his light gear, but had he worn the combat jacket, he would not have made it. He inquired of the soldier who had saved his life with a simple observation and piece of advice. The men told him that he had perished in combat.

Mr. Boyle expressed that he wished in many ways that he had never joined back up with the Division as there were so many faces missing, most of whom were casualties of war.

The Third had been a good division two years earlier, said one of his old friends, but they were better now with experience behind them. They still had the spirit, however, which they had in North Africa.