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A wise man said ""*.tnr", tc me the other day that fairly made the flesh crawl up my back. See ifit doesn't do the same to you. He said: "Do you realize that the men in the Kremlin tell us who, and where, and when we must fight? We are fighting in Korea because they so planned it. They called all the shots. And they can start another side war any time, any place, and with anybody they choose, and there, again, we will have to fight. While they sit in the Kremlin and pull the strings?" Horrible thought, isn't it? x *

Why should Russia go to war, when they can order and arrange and start small wars in a dozen different places in the world, any time it suits their purpose. No need for them to fight, so long as they can get it done, and force their one great adversaryourselvesto spend our strength as they dictate. Honest to God, Junior, how did we ever get into such an unholy, horrible predicament?

Ever since the last *", .rlU.J we have been learning that in all the world doings in which we participate, the United Nations, et aI, we do ALL the paying. We have come to understand that. And now that the United Nations is fighting a war in Korea, we have learned that we also do all the fighting, all the bleeding, and al1 the dying. Pleasant. isn't it?

You wouldn't believe that history could repeat itself with such rapidity. I went back over some of the stuff I wrote during World War Two (some jokers have been referring lately to the Korean thing as World. War Twoand-One-Half), and found this paragraph: "How can we ever forget that in our time the greatest,"the grandest, the noblest army of all history went out from this fair land of ours and fought the brave fight; not to enslave, but to free men; not to destroy, but to save; not for ourselves, but for others; not for conquest, but for conscience; not for ourselves, but for every land and every .race. With courage, with enthusiasm, with devotion never surpassed they fought the battle of free men. Disheartened by no defeat, discouragcd by no set-back, appalled by no danger, they neither paused nor swerved until the enemies of free- dom had laid down their arms. This is a debt we can never repay."

And now, just a r.* "nJr. ]""r, ,"..r, with our hospitals still crowded with the unfortunates who fell but did not die ; with the bills for the last war still entirely unpaid; we find ourselves sending another army of boys out to do the same thing over again. :r*

And even now, while the groans of the dying American kids in Korea bring scalding sobs to the hearers, in the United Nations meeting at Lake Success, New York, a representative of the goons in the Kremlin rises to his feet and offers loud and cowardly insults to this nation, and through it to our dying soldiers. Why do we stand it? Why should our representatives sit down in formal meeting with the Government restlonsible for all the ills of this sick world. Looks to me like the least some good American could do would be to smash a bowl of hot soup in his ugly puss, and kick him down the back stairs. How much can we stand?

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I heartily agree with this sentiment and I am enclosing herewith copy of your Vagabond Editorials of May 15 issue. I had 100 of these made and sent them to most of mv friends, nearly all of whom got a kick out of it.

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