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The Star News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails.___ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PKEbS With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people— we will gain the inevitable triumph—«o help us God. Roosevelt’s War Message. TUESDAY. MARCH 20. 1945._ THOUGHT FOR TODAY To be kind is to be like Christ. PAUL BARTON. -V Sweden Takes Steps Relief for the newsprint shortage in Britain and the United States is seen in an agreement with the Swedish government for use of Swe den's merchant fleet by the Allied Shipping Pool as soon as the German holds on the Skaggerak and the western Baltic is broken. Ships carrying newsprint and wood pulp to both countries will be cargoed with civilian supplies for Europe's liberated countries and Sweden itself, according to the program. How the neutrals are beginning to get in out of the wet, now that the war's outcome in Europe is no longer in doubt! Bridge Collapse Collapse of the Lukendorff bridge across the Rhine at Remagen, which cost the lives of an undertermined number of American engineers might have been more tragic if traffic had been using the span in large volume. Terrible as it was, American men and equip ment might have been pouring into the Reich at the fatal moment if structural weakness had not been known in advance. As it was only men employed on repairs were present and although they were carried into the waters below, soldiers, by heroic effort, rescued many. The collapse is directly traceable to Ger man demolition charges placed some ten days ago, which damaged a lower girder. When this gave way the super-structure caved in and for the time being the Allies’ chief access to Germany east of the Rhine is cut off. En gineers declare the damage may be repaired speedily, so the Germans will gain little, in the final count. By a strange coincidence the accident hap pened a few hours before the German High Command announced the execution of four of ficers for cowardice and negligence for al lowing the span to be seized practically intact on March 7. -V Barauch To London The day's best news out of Washington is the probability that Bernard M. Baruch will go to London to discuss German reparations with Winston Churchill before the San Fran cisco Security conference. In addition to what war costs shall be levied upon the Germans, he is scheduled to take up with the British Prime Minister and other London officials gen eral postwar economic problems. President Roosevelt, who is credited with selecting the aging financier and adviser of President Wilson for this visit could not have chosen better. When Mr. Baruch was at Ver sailles with President Wilson he opposed the reparations burden placed upon Germany, de claring the economic load would raise the prospect of another war. Now he favors a harsh peace with the Reich but not of the same type favored by Secretary Morgenthau of the Treasury. In other words, he is a logical realist. We may be sure he will propose that Germany be compelled to pay through the nose, but not with a clothespin pinching its nostrils. Another reason to be thankful that he is to '•make a trip to London is that he favors long occupation of the Reich and complete des truction of its war industries. --v A Needed Reminder There is considerable good sense in Samuel Goldwyn’s suggestion that the delegates to the United Nations Conference in San Fran cisco look at a motion picure record of the ■war before sitting down to work out the struc ture of a world security organization. Two or even three days of such movie go ing would be all to the good, it seems to us. But the films should be more complete than what we see in theaters, and free from the editing which softens the impact of war up on the sensibilities of the movie patron. We also think that the film history of this war should be preserved as a possible wea pon against militarism in the future, anc particularly against any repetition of the wav< sentimental pity for the poor, misundersooc Germans which cropped up some years after the last war. ' . ... Vo soldier or sailor who saw action in tins war and no civilian who endured a bombing attack is likely to forget that experience quickly. But there are millions who never knew the actual experience of war, and a new generation will come along to whom e or rible reality of war will be beyond lmagina tion. So it might do no harm to bolster the fu ture machinery of international peace with the vivid and frightful evidence of these war years, which could be brought out and shown as a warning “preview” if saber-rattling or relaxed -vigilance should again menace the security of the world. -V Protecting Democracy’s Arsenal With the appointment by War Mobilizer Byrnes of a committee to allocate and co ordinate food exports, there comes to mind once more a too-familiar question: “Why didn't somebody think of that before?” Only the most selfish among us would com plain of our government's zealous desire to relieve the hunger of war-wracked Europe out of the comparative bounty of a hard pressed but untouched America. But certain ly any citizen might find fault with the con fusion and overlapping among various agen cies that the announcement of the commit tee's appointment revealed. There is one notable absence from the com mittee which Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley will head, UNRRA is not repre sented. It remains to be seen whether this humanitarian, highly publicized, highly expen sive international relief organization is des tined to do even less in the future than it has in the past. Eut at least members of the various gov ernment departments and agencies concerned with production, -rocurement and( distribution of food are finally going to sit down together. They will try to find an efficient and eco nomical way to manage a food supply, now seriously low, so as to maintain domes dc health and productive -energy and still meet military and other commitments. It is too bad that the government had to wait so long before taking this step. But now that it has been taken it seems to us that it should be followed by similar inquiries in otn er fields than food. Domestic transportation is beginning to show strain at the seams, and other essentials will surely follow suit if some orderly provisions are not made soon. Necessity, and not any desire for "comfort as usual,” suggests these other steps. We are the only country fighting two major wars. In addition our Allies depend heavily upon our production. Any breakdown at the source of supply, at a time when victory is almost in sight in one theater of war, would be dis astrous. It is understandable that our Allies might feel at least an emotional envy of our free dom from civilian death and devastation. But realistically they should be, and probably are, thankful that what is in sober fact the ar senal of democracy remains intact. It seems likely that we may eat sufficiently well without scrimping hungry Europe, and mend our domestic machinery without scrimp ing the fighting men, if Washington can put an end to divided authority, duplicated effort, and the jealousies and secrecies of inter-de partmental strife. At least it would help. Such a Utopia has long been talked about, but it’s really needed now. -V Sugar Shortage Relief United Business Service of Boston sees some relief in the sugar shortage in the in creased production of sugar beets, although the government’s objective of a 60 per cent gain will not be forthcoming. Increased production of beet sugar offers the quickest means of alleviating the grow ing sugar shortage, as cane crops normally take two or more years to produce. The beet crop last year was only about 60 per cent of average for the second successive year, and the Government has set its 1945 goal at 1 1-2 times the 1944 acreage. Incentives to greater production—cash subsidy payments —have not been increased. However, the boost from $1.50 per ton to $3.00 in 1944, which was announced too late to affect 1944 output, is being continued in 1945. This will bring producers a total cash return of $12.50 per ton, or about $5.45 more than in 1940. Yet the net cost of this sugar to beet factories is only about $1.67 more than in 1940, and the selling price is about $3.30 higher. The out look for refiners is thus relatively favorable. The gain in beet production this year will admittedly be limited. Labor is still short, and is being only partially offset by increased mechanization. Some observers expect no more than a 15-20 per cent increase over 1944 in acreage. Much will depend on changes in economic and war conditions later in the year. Nevertheless, the groundwork has been laid for greater beet sugar production from now on, and companies in this field should benefit accordingly from an earnings view point. -y We know we have lost the war, but we want to show you we are the finest fighting soldiers in the world. — German officer captured on Western Front. * * * Failure to plan now for full employment after the war is responsible more than any oth er single factor for the Iobs to war produc tion of hundreds of thousands of workers in Detroit and other critical areas. — Walter Reuther, UAW vice president. * • * How durable and secure the peace will be after victory will depend upon whether we can work together with the other United Na tions even more closely and successfully thar we have in this war. — Secretary of State Ed ward ‘R. Stettinius Jr, Fair Enough (Editor’s note.—The Star and the News accept no responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree with them as much as many of his read ers. His articles serve the good purpose of making people think.) By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1945, by King Features Syndicate.) In his moist and martyristic hour of self sympathy at a political demonstration in New York, Henry Wallace said he felt no bitter ness but that men represented issues and that all of us would have to stand'up and be counted. Well, bitterness is out of my line, too, but the issues do involve exciting differences of deep belief and sometimes our voices rise in a way to suggest to the neighbors that our people are arguing things out with ball-bats and tire irons. In approaching the subject of employment after the war, Wallace adopted a trick of the new deal ideologist which was cribbed from Hitler in the first place. It is the trick of tossing off some fantastic proposition and then assuming that its soundness has been conceded without a contest by the other side. Thus, some years ago, President Roosevelt referred to one third of a nation ill-fed, ill housed and ill-clothed and immediately, be cause he had said it, this dramatic concept of more than 40,000.000 gaunt and ragged hovel-dwellers became, like the perfidy of the Treaty of Versailles, a political fetish. Again, some propagandist estimated or arbitrarily decided that some few thousand Americans controlled all but about $200 of our wealth and, again, like Hitler’ similar charge against “Jewish exploiters’’ in Germany, this became a by-word. Wallace cried to his totalitarian friends in New York, to whom he gave final credit for Roosevelt's fourth election, that “the one out standing issue in the campaign was set forth by Roosevelt, 60,000,000 jobs.’’ Then, granting himself the wisdom of this figure, he contin ued, “I repeatedly emphasized the need for getting the 60,000,000 jobs.’’ Later in the speech he mentioned the 60,000,000 jobs for a third time. So, by now, in a certain proportion of the public mind, the proposition u accepted that, after the war, six-thirteenths of all our people, almost half of us, must have steady, employ ment. But Roosevelt and Wallace surely are not in favor of child labor, so we must cross the children under 18 and thus raise the propor tion'of adult, employable women whom they would permanently remove from the homes to work for wages, many of them in defemin izing surroundings and at masculine taks and in male garments. We have a plan afoot, also, to maintain a large Army and Navy after the war, composed almost entirely of able-bod ied males, so, again, up goes the proportion of women in jobs. If we include among those who will be un available for these jobs the elders, above 60 years, the prison population and the unem ployable invalids, we come to the point of finding 60,000,000 employed workers among a total of probably no more than 80,000,000 eli gible, men and women. Without bitterness, but on the basis of his wife's autobiography, it may be conceded that Roosevelt is personally unfamiliar with the normal American method of establishing a home when two young persons marry. Nor mally, the husband gets the job and pro vides the money to establish the home, us ually a modest apartment or house. The wife stays home, bears the children, cares for them, instructs them and makes sacrifices for them. When the Roosevelts were married he was still a student, and his mother bought them not only a town house but an elaborate sum mer place, both completely furnished. It was a matter of years before he undertook to be the provider and even then the family for tune was still behind them. Thus subsidized, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was able to have her family without having to go to work for a living. Wallace, also, came of a background of wealth so both he and Roosevelt may be excused their ignorance of the family eco nomic problem of young Americans who mar ry without money or with only a few hundred dollars for the furniture or a down payment on a frame house in the suburbs. In this plan for 60,000,000 jobs there seems to be no provision for the preservation of the American home and of the integrity of the family unit. It appears to count on the regu lar employment for wages of the young wives and mothers and to suggest either unfami liarity with the customary way or some idea, not yet revealed, that here, as in Russia, the children should be mothered by public agencies which, being political, doubtless would teach or, in the fashionable word of the riav. "indoctrinate” them after the man ner of the communists and the Nazis. Unquestionably, this relationship between husband and wife makes for jealousy, en vy and divorce. At best, in the past, it has given the wife an excuse not to concern her self with the homely but essential duties of housekeeping and to postpone or forego moth erhood. Often the motive for this dual job holding has been mere luxury and women have competed not only with men in holding jobs which they did not need but with othjer women who thus were denied their chance to marry because their suitors, in competi tion with working women, could not earn enough to undertake family responsibility. The Roosevelt-Wallace plan appears to hold that henceforth as many women as men shall be job-holders, a proportion which obviously threatens the home and the birth-rate and in vites some public mothering service for such children as do impose on their working moth ers for the favor of birth. Wouldn’t 40,000,000 workers, mostly men, be able to do the work and business of that wonderful new world of the future? And if it is necessary for both wife and husband, mother and father, to hold jobs in order to earn enough money for a living, isn’t there something wrong with the wage scale of that idealistic economic system? Roosevelt, as his wife revealed, wouldn’t know about this problem from personal ex perience and both he and Wallace seem to admire the Russian system on the basis of the big rough figures. They seem to regard jobs as an end in themselves without con sidering why the average, normal American adult male wants a job in the first place. -V Supplying weapons needed in the Pacific is going to be a bigger job than the people extent to which the industry’s facilities will realize. Nor do they fully understand the extent to which the industry’s facilities will be almost completely tied up after VE-Day. —George Romney, director Automotive Coun cil for War Production. -V There can be but one command: to defy ah dangers with iron determination and to ao everything to bring about a turn for the bet ter—Hitler i UNITED FOR VICTORY_ Your War- With Ernie Pyle BT ERMG PYLE over. A lot of experienced people dred times how I happened to come IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC— were seasick during that storm. on this ship with so many to ,. , Tf.. ...cv *o eet ac- „ . . , . , choose from. It is always said in (de ayad' aboard* • a*Naval vessel Very leW °f the b°ys haV6 de‘ that hopeful tone of wondering if qUThe sailors are just as friendly veloped any real love for the sea— x chose it because it has such a as the soldiers I’d known on the the kind that will draw them back noble reputation, other side Furthermore they’re to it for a lifetime. Some of course So I tell them that I asked to so deligt ted to see a stranger and will come back if things get tough be put on a light carrier like this, have somebody new to talk to, that .after the war. But mostly they are rather than a big one. But that thev aren’t a bit standoffish temporary sailors, and the sea is being a newcomer to the Pacific Thev’re all sick to death of the not in their blood. I didn’t know one ship from an isolation and monotony of the vast Taking it all in all, they’re good other, so this was the ship tne Pacific I believe they talk more boys who do what is asked of them Navy put me on. about wanting to go home than and do it well. They are very sin- But that satisfies them just as even the soldiers in Europe. cere and genuine and they are well, for then they assume that Their lives really are empty almost unanimously proud of their the Navy itself considers their ship lives.! They-have their work, and ship _ . * superior one - which I'm sure their movies and their mail, and I think I’ve been asked a hun- it does._ that’s just about all they do have, p- -— ■ .... — - They never see anybody I WASHINGTON CALLING themselves, and that gets mighl> old. They sail and sail, and never 1 arrive anywhere. They’ve not even “w T- MARQUIS CHILDS mote, lifeless sandbars in the Pa- " ■ - ■ " . - ■ — - — cific and have been allowed to go ROME—An endless source of hope, which today seems to have ashore for a few hours and sit un- speculation here is why the Ger- died utterly. der palm trees and drink three . numbers of their The destruction in the north will, cans of beer. That’s all. mans Kept .ge numDers 01 x“elr if possible, be even worse than the * * ♦ best troops in Northetti Italy when, destruction in the south. What has Yet they do live well. Their ^>od by withdrawing to the passes of not been knocked down by Allied is the best I’ve run onto in this the Alps, they could have held that bombing will be demolished by the war. They have steaks and ice frontier with only a few divisions. Germans, who have had ample cream—they probably eat better The industrial plants of the north time to prepare for the kind o) than they would at home. are one answer. But the volume demolition they do with Teutonic They take baths daily, and tne 0f production in Milan and other thoroughness, laundry washes their clothes. Their industrial centers is not sufficient Another possible reason, incid quarters are crowded, but each t0 justify such an illogical use of entally, why Kesserling’s force; man has a bunk with mattress and military manpower. In fact, recent have held on in northern Italy i: sheets, ar.d a private locker to reports indicate that, through re- the fact that more than 400,00C keep his stuff in. They work hard, peated Allied bombing and through Italian workers, including many 01 but their hours are regular. sabotage by the Italian under- the ablest and most highly skilled The boys ask you a thousand ground, production in the Po valley are working in Germany. To aban times how this compares with the bas been greatly curtailed. don all of Italy would be to risk other side. I can only answer that Jt may suffice t0 supply Mar- the Ioss of their productive cap this is much better. They seem to shai Kesselping’s 26 or 27 divisions, a city. expect you to say that, but they but tbere js little left over. And if The road back for the Italian are a little disappointed too. there were anv surplus, continuous People is bound to be a long one. They say 'But us tougn ^ away from home for more than a year, and never see anything but water and an occasional atoll.” And I say yes I know it is, but there are boys who have been :n Europe more than three years, and have slept on the ground a good part of that time. And they say yes, they guess In contrast their lives are pretty good. Seaman Paul Begley looks at his wartime life philosophically. He is a farm boy from Rogersville, Tenn. He talks a lot in a soft voice that is southern clear through. He’s one of the plane pushers on the flight deck. “I can stand this monotony all right,” he says. ‘‘The point with us is that we’ve got a pretty good chance of living through this. Think of the Marines who have to take the beaches, and the Infantry in Germany, I can stand a lot of monotony if I know my chances are pretty good for coming out of it alive.” But others yell their heads off about their lot, and feel they’re being persecuted by being kept out of America a year. I’ve heard some boys say "I’d trade this for a foxhole any day.” You just have to kep your mouth shut to a re mark like that. At least 50 per cent of the sail ors’ conversation, when talking to' a newcomer like myself, is about three things: — The terrible typhoon they went through °*f the Philippines; the times they were hit by Jap bombs and their desire to get back to America. The typhoon was awful. Many thought they would go the same way as the three destroyers that capsired. This Ship is inclined to roll badly anyhow. Today she stiU has immense dents in her smoke stacks where they smacked the water when she rolled that far over. A lot of experienced people were seasick during that storm. Very few of the boys have de veloped any real love for the sea— the kind that will draw them back to it for a lifetime. Some of course will come back if things get tough .after the war. But mostly they are temporary sailors, and the sea is not in their blood. Taking it all in all, they’re good boys who do what is asked of them and do it well. They are very sin cere and genuine and they are almost unanimously proud of their ship. 1 think I’ve been asked a hun r——— - dred times how I happened to come on this ship, with so many to choose from. It is always said in that hopeful tone of wondering if I chose it because it has such a noble reputation. So I tell them that I asked to be put on a light carrier like this, rather than a big one. But that being a newcomer to the Pacific I didn’t know one ship from an other, so this was the ship the Navy put me on. But that satisfies them just as well, for then they assume that the Navy itself considers their ship a superior one — which I'm sure it does. WASHINGTON CALLING by MARQUIS CHILDS ROME—An endless source of speculation here is why the Ger mans kept large numbers of their best troops in Northerti Italy when, by withdrawing to the passes of the Alps, they could have held that frontier with only a few divisions. The industrial plants of the north are one answer. But the volume of production in Milan and other industrial centers is not sufficient to justify such an illogical use of military manpower. In fact, recent reports indicate that, through re peated Allied bombing and through sabotage by the Italian under ground, production in the Po valley has been greatly curtailed. It may suffice to supply Mar shal Kesselping’s 26 or 27 divisions, but there is little left over. And if there were any surplus, continuous bombing of the passes of the Alps has made it all but impossible to get it into Hitler’s besieged Reich. The decline of production in Ger man-held Italy—by far the most productive part of the country— points up the extremely effective work done by Italian partisans. The partisans in the rugged Apen nines have shown extraordinary courage and tenacity. By their knowledge, skill and boldness, they have saved countless American lives. Supplies are dropped to them from the air under conditions which subject fliers to great haz ards. For obvious reasons, little can be said about this now. In many ways, the Italians are helping the Allied war effort. Military men with whom I have talked in this theater almost all agree that Italian divisions are per forming a valuable service. The pressure on the Allied line runs across the peninsula is great and Italian regiments have helped to relieve that pressure. Behind the lines, in connection with the vast tasks of supply and transportation, you see them work ing everywhere. It is true that their tempo is slow. As one GI put it, the man who said Rome wasn’t built in a day must have watched Italians at work. But their help in the hard drugery of the war has meant an important saving in Al lied manpower. Italian service troops, using mules, have carried munitions and supplies right up to foxholes over almost impassable mountain trails. Again, their knowledge and exper ience have counted for a great deal. All this is evidence of the contin uing vitality of the Italian people in spite of Fascism, disgrace and defeat. Perhaps, when once again the north and the south are united, there will be a new focus for Italian i • hope, which today seems to have died utterly. The destruction in the north will, if possible, be even worse than the destruction in the south. What has not been knocked down by Allied bombing will be demolished by the Germans, who have had ample time to prepare for the kind of demolition they do with Teutonic thoroughness. Another possible reason, incid entally, why Kesserling’s forces have held on in northern Italy is the fact that more than 400,000 Italian workers, including many of the ablest and most highly skilled, are working in Germany. To aban don all of Italy would be to risk the loss of their productive cap acity. The road back for the Italian people is bound to be a long one. Their normal bankruptcy is pain fully evident. Even hard-boiled GIs are shocked by young Italian boys who. in parts of southern It aly, solicit on the streets for their sisters. The extent dt thievery is appall ing. U. S. property must be pro tected at all times. If jeeps and command cars cannot be stolen because they are locked and double-locked, then leather is cut off the seats and every part re moved that can be pried off. Pil (Continued on Page Eleven) Interpreting The War By KIRKE L. SIMPSOV Associated Press W., , The extent to wW** the bridge over the Rhine JV* megen may delay Px,7 R' Allied plans for , '* heart of Germany is unwediM 5* although field dispatches ' 3:* ’ it can and will be quickly to service. The structure has already ed its primary purj 7 . ’’ tating establishment of a vide j deep east, bank A.me - head. No uneasiness a- F: ;• i7? or Allied Supreme HeadquaiW on that score is irdic-ted t ' very terrain difficulties'east i tne river which have - m ..... 1 1 sion of the bridgehead a slowand difficulty business now must W8 to deny'the foe an opportunity ** take advantage of the mish Even if the German command w the forces available for a major counter attack, as it obvin-7. has not. it could hardly hope tl throw the powerful All ed force, already massed on the east bank back into or beyond the Rhine without exposing other sectors of the east Rhine defenses t Allied crossing attacks. The fall of the main bridge span therefore, seems likely to effect only the time element in Allied plans. It could delay the mdme • when sufficient men and mater::’ have reached the east bank for the mounting of power drives aj or down the river. Snme field reports suggest? , possible major drive eastward from the Rem a gen take-off. a glance at any topographical map of the region raises doubt thy such a movement would be pr: . ticabie. There are few east- . communication laterals north y Coblenz or south of the Colog;«. Dusseldorf stretch of the lower Rhine to invite it. The Remagen bridgehead, how ever, is a dangerous rip in Nazi east Rhine bank defenses because it potentially outflanks more cr • cal crossing areas both to tic north and the south. It threatens to roll up more or less improvised enemy defenses in either or bn directions to facilitate new Rhi:e crossings at points where the ter rain is far more favorable for I eastward drives and where ;ond road and rail communications exist along which Allied armies could be supplied as they drove on into the German heartland. Loss of the bridge could tem porarily delay full exploitation of the east bank bridgehead for that purpose. With two American arm. ies sweeping at express speed through the Saarland and Pala tinate to the north, however, and west bank Coblenz in American hands, the center of immediate interest on the Rhine has shifted ud river. ‘The double or triple trap belt:’ developed so swiftly by the T and Seventh American armies in the Rhine-Moselle-Saar frianrie is doing far more than put an f timated 80.000 Nazi Loops fo e - fused and harried flight. 1 oris fair to place Allied forces aV.rg the most vulnerable stretch of the Rhine from Coblenz to Karls-ne .in a matter of days at most. The forcing of the Rhine at ap point between those two c would expose all south cent. Germany to immediate ir.vasior And there are no high banks ■ rising ridges east of the river help balk such a crossing contain it. once the river itseL r.aa , been spanned. ] Daily Prayer -— FOR SACRIFICIAL LIVING Already the bitterness of war, with its restraints and sacnf j is biting into all ot:r lives, ing new burdens and anxieties. These we would lay upon Thee.' loving Lord. Like our loved ores in uniform, we have had to up our own ways and wills, g to face deprivations and new Du ties. Cherished plans have h-o be abandoned irksome econom.e. have been laid upon us. Now' pray for the soldier spirit, that may bear all and do all tn». - hour enjoins with good win j cheerfulness and ever-Lan...-, /* triotism. We thank Thee tha have such a Country and suen - Cause to serve. May no pe • • - - ishness or fear come hetwee and his high opportunity. 'nf ty with our Service men we - ^ ly offer our all to Thee, and to _• Land we love. Amen. The. Literary Guidepost I BY W. G. ROGERS “The Young Jefferson,” by Claude G. Bowers (Houghton Miflln; $3.75.) With this volume Bowers com pletes a trilogy on Jefferson. In “The Young Jefferson” we see the growth and formation of the man already delineated as secretary of state and President in the previous volumes, “Jefferson and Hamilton” and “Jefferson in Power.” The en tire three-part work is no less au thoritative for having been writ ten hindside first. Bowers is all for Jefferson If the Virginian had died before Washington’s inauguration, the ardent biographer claims', “he would still be one of America s few immortals. ’ Many of us might have agreed before reading the book; we have to agree afterward Jefferson’s great accomplish ments, as compiled here, include not only authorship of the Dec laration of Independence and the “Summary View of the Rights of British America,” but also full support of Gen. Washington, a fight for the Bill of Rights, sweep ing liberal reforms in his °v"1 Bowers pictures the youth teens as a brilliant student at liam and Mary intimate 01 royal governor on his ov.n mt rather than as a scion of But the redhead was is. besides student; he played •-* die, followed the races, e.j " plays of Shakespc; "f-. _en't and the worldly Congre''*1- ^ money at cards and 'hot ■ girls. . .later in Paris re . '^.j. like the company of Fre men. yo On several scores '■■Pr_ o: grapher corrects past errors j3. misconceptions. Jefferson -.3 debted more to English o.a French political philcs . did not force his attentioi ..' , neighbor's wife. He dm _ , abandon Virginia to the re r fc;j He did not flee Paris to 3■''* own skin 3$ the Terror !l ‘ j It’s a book we all need to "T0.j And don’t be /deceived when . buy it by the silly illus' the jacket; it’s not the _.e mance the ; picture n isht n you suspect.t
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