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Japanese Schools During the American Occupation | Japanese Children 1945-1946 | Post-War Japanese Youth
1945, PM Tabloid, Post-War Japan, Recent Articles

The Question of Japanese Youth
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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Far-flung correspondent Max Lerner (1902 – 1992) penned the attached editorial concerning the necessity of reëducation Japanese school children:

The Japanese youth are the key to Japan’s future. There were 12,000,000 of them in the elementary schools before the war, dressed in school uniforms, bowing before the Emperor’s portrait every day on entering and leaving… The values taught to him were feudal and fascist values, but the weapons given him were modern weapons. This is the combination that produced the suicide-squadrons of the Kamikaze.


A similar article about German youth can be read here.

Confederate Doctors and their Many Problems (Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1922)
1922, Civil War History, Confederate Veteran Magazine

Confederate Doctors and their Many Problems
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1922)

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A few paragraphs on the difficulties faced by the medical establishment of the Confederacy as a result of the Union naval blockade of Southern ports. We were surprised to learn that the scarcity of quinine and other medicinal aids forced the doctors of the South to embrace herbalism.


Click here to read about the heavy influence religion had in the Rebel states during the American Civil War.

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British Women During WW I | WW1 British Factory women | WW1 Women Ordinance Workers
1916, Collier's Magazine, Women (WWI)

W.W. I and British Women
(Collier’s Magazine, 1916)

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Woman’s hour has come! One of the splendid things that have come out of the bloody carnage of war to challenge the admiration of the world is the heroic exhibition of physical strength and courage shown by the women of the belligerent countries. They are doing more than merely substituting at men’s work. In England they are winning their struggle for equality with men.


Click here to read about the lot of French women during the First World War.

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Socialism is not Good for America |
1949, Recent Articles, The American Magazine, The Nanny State

Socialism Bad
(The American Magazine, 1949)

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It seems difficult to imagine, but this opinion writer felt America leaning toward socialism as far back as 1949:


While the people look more and more to Washington to do everything under the sun for them, the Federal Government hasn’t been discouraging them at all. On the contrary, the Administration has been repeatedly asking for more and more powers to use when it may see fit.


He is sympathetic to their feelings, but cautions his readers that Marxism looks alluring on the printed page – but it will simply lead to serfdom in the end

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Hitler: Ten Years Before his Rise (Literary Digest, 1923)
1923, Adolf Hitler, The Literary Digest

Hitler: Ten Years Before his Rise
(Literary Digest, 1923)

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This article was written shortly after the French occupation of the Ruhr and at a time when Adolf Hitler did not have much of a following -he was something of a curiosity to the Western press:

A principal reason why Hitler’s followers have begun to doubt him, it appears, is that the ‘dreaded gathering’ of the National Socialists in Munich came and went without ‘accomplishment.’


Read about the earliest post-war sightings of Hitler: 1945-1955

German Economist Hjalmar Schacht 1937 | Hjalmar Schacht and the German Economy | Hjalmar Schacht Hitler's Banker
1937, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest, The Nazis

Hitler’s Economist
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht (1877 – 1970) was the German economist who is credited with having stabilized that nation’s currency following the Wiemar Republic and made possible the Nazi quest of military rearmament:

Germany lacks the stuff of which tanks and guns and explosives are made . It lacks rubber, cotton, silk, copper, tin and iron ore. It lacks food for its 65,000,000 people and fodder for it cattle. So Dr. Schacht has laced German business and industry into a straight-jacket of rigid control, to conserve materials and exchange.


Although he never became a Nazi Party member, he was highly placed in the Reich. In the attached 1937 profile, you will learn that Schacht cautioned Hitler numerous times to remove the Socialist regulations that restrained the German economy from kicking in to high gear.


Click here to read an article that explains in great detail how the Nazi economic system (with it’s wage and price controls) was Marxist in origin.

Labor Abuses in the South (Focus Magazine, 1938)
1938, Focus Magazine, Recent Articles, The Great Depression

Labor Abuses in the South
(Focus Magazine, 1938)

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Many of the back-handed dealings that would be addressed in John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath are illustrated in the attached photo-essay titled, Slavery in America. This article is about the cruel world of the Deep South that existed in the Twenties and Thirties. It was an agrarian fiefdom where generations of White planters and factory owners practiced the most un-American system of exploitation and feudalism that developed and was perpetuated from the chaos wrought by the Civil War and Reconstruction. It was a nasty place where the working people of both races labored under conditions of peonage and bone-crushing poverty with no hope in sight.


Click here to read more about the American South during the Great Depression.

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George VI: Corrections were Made that had Consequences (Literary Digest, 1937)
1937, European Royalty, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

George VI: Corrections were Made that had Consequences
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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With the revelation that Britain’s King George VI was left-handed came this column by an uncredited journalist listing all the various unseemly elements that are associated with with left hand usage (most importantly, Lucifer). In light of the fact that a British king is also assigned the title Defender of the Faith in the Anglican Church; steps had to be taken in his youth to train him how to use his right hand. These lessons came at a cost, and the result was his sad stuttering speech – which also involved additional lessons with a speech therapist.

Nancy Langhorne Astor, M.P. (Literary Digest, 1922)
1922, The Literary Digest, Women's Suffrage

Nancy Langhorne Astor, M.P.
(Literary Digest, 1922)

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Lady Nancy Astor (1879 – 1964) is remembered as the first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons (she was not the first woman to be elected, but she was the first woman to serve in the House of Commons). Born in Virginia, she was the daughter of a former Confederate officer who refused to send her to college, thereby sparking her interests in the Suffrage movement. Following the divorce from her first husband in 1903, she set sail for Britain and met Waldorf Astor (1879 – 1952) while on board ship. The two were wed in 1906 and soon developed and interest in British politics. She became a Member of Parliament in 1919 and served in the House of Commons until 1945.

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WW I Play Journeys End 1929 Review | WA Darlington Journeys End Criticism | RC Sheriff WW1 Drama Journeys End
1929, Recent Articles, Theatre Arts Monthly, Writing

JOURNEY’S END by R.C. Sheriff
(Theatre Arts Magazine, 1929)

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Robert Littell reviewed the first New York production of Journey’s End by former infantry officer, R.C. Sherriff (1896 – 1975: 9th East Surrey Regiment, 1915 – 1918). We have also included a paragraph from a British critic named W.A. Darlington who had once fought in the trenches and approaches the drama from the angle of a veteran:


Click here if you would like to read another article about the WW I play Journey’s End.

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