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This Is Our War Now...J •. *Some of us have accepted America's new position in the present world conflagration but others of us are still playjng the ostrich. However, we believe that mure of us would come lo realize the present situation if we could hear more men talk who speak with the knowledge of Edward 1R. Murrow, a Columbia Broadcasting system news analyst.• Mr. Murrow was in England during her mnst. terrible bombings. Many of you have heard his radiocasts from London. They were good, But Mr. Murrow has been back in the United Stales for a month and during that month, he explained last night, he has been traveling around the United States In see whnt his own country irf doing during her greatest trial. •9y ^ics lone of his voice and by the choice of his words, Mr. Murrow expressed anything but satisfaction. IBs was not a condemnation but rather a presentation of the facts. And sometimes a presentation of the facts will make for condemnation in your own mind.It did in our mind.Mr. Murrow is of the opinion that America faces her biggest job. He is of the opinion that It is harder for a people menjf' thousands of miles from the roaring and tearing of bursting bombs to put their best effort into the job of preparing. He believes that'it is easier for a person under duress, brought by an enemy’s bombs, lo work harder and longer and faster.Mr. Murrow believes that America should work harder and longer and Faster and that the nation as n whole should participate in America’s great effortMr. Murrow expressed sympathy for the English, whom ho said were coming in for no end of criticism from good Americans. He said the English, when they were where we are today, had the same criticism for the French.We, too, have long held the opinion that Mr. Murrow expressed that the English are suffering their losses in Libya and Singapore because we Americans are not aiding them lo Pur fullest, England is our ally, he said. We are partially responsible for her losses'and her gains. And both should certainly bo to our interest. But we, too, have condemned unthinkingly.Mr. Murrow said that it was hard to face an enemy only 26 miles away and send your best troops and your finest materials of war many thousands of miles away to fight on an island in the Far East, or on another continent, Africa. He said it was easier and better to keep that army at home to defend yourself against the world’s greatest mechanized power, England is defending herself against Hitler.Edwurd R. Murrow speaks intelligently, lk* does not loosely sling the threat of defeat as a means by which to arouse his listeners. Hu speaks of exislencies. And he speaks a£ a man who knows for he has been there and he has soon. His is not propaganda but the* voice of experience.Sooner or later ail of us must come to think like Edward R. Murrow thinks. We must accept the fact that World War No. 2 is just as much our war now as it is Russia's war or I England's war. And we must never forget thal. it was a divided Europe Hint caused the downfall of. so many nations and that a division of the present allies can just as easily cause our defeat..Every punch that England cannot throw nt this lime, it's up to us- to deliver. And we ought to enjoy delivering them.Adolf Hitler is our enemy ten.
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Sun, Feb 08, 1942
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