Isolationist Way Failed and Mountain Hardship Report
A three week Signal Corps patrol endured brutal mountain travel by rail and snow in four cars with snowdrifts three to four feet deep. Sgt. Walter McKinney was injured when a speeder was hit by a snowplow. Pfc. Robert Malloy survived exposure while James Jasperse died. The piece reflects on isolationism and postwar aims, urging active involvement and a quick return home as the war ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signal Corps
Walter McKinney
Cincinnati
Ohio
Gerald McCarthy
Rochester
N. Y
Robert Malloy
Whitestone
James Jasperse
Pacific
New Zealand
States
Chateau-Thierry
France
U. S
League of Nations
Versailles
Manchuria
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Hitler
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Adolf
Pearl Harbor
Returning GIs criticise isolationism and urge postwar unity
The author argues GIs are disillusioned with Europe and Africa, noting dirt, ignorance, and the gap between rulers and the ruled. He predicts a tougher American foreign stance, urges responsibility to prevent another world war, and promotes Allied cooperation post Pearl Harbor. He stresses economic and security interdependence with other nations. North Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Asia
Africa
U.S
Moscow
Cairo
Teheran
King Canute
Manchuria
Ethiopia
Spain
Czechoslovakia
North Africa
Soldier Speaks department to run in YANK
The Army Weekly announces a regular GI opinion feature open to enlisted men. Readers may submit ideas on postwar topics, starting with Should the U S Have Compulsory Military Training After the War. Mail submissions to The Soldier Speaks, 205 East 42d Street, New York, NY 17. NY. The best will be printed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YANK
U. S
Soldier Speaks Department
Army Weekly
East 42d Street
New York
N. Y
Nationalist U S voice criticized on isolationism urges world war cycle
Pfc. Harold Wagoner argues that internationalists and isolationists fail on civil rights and security, calling for a nationalist United States with a large peacetime army and navy and readiness for a major war roughly every two decades, while urging cooperation when possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Netherlands East Indies
Puerto Rico
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Russia
Great Britain
U.S
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Ees Peery Slee
To.r
Clarence Harper
Elmer Schwanke
Mttsat Gilmartin
Harris
Robert Bisbing
James Foster
South Pacific
Sgt
James Keeley
Munity Hospital
Haly
Newton H. Fulbright
Ainst
Pettey
A.ecole
America
China
Burma
Pfc
Harold Wagoner
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