Posted on 03/10/2015 4:22:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
In Churchill’s note to the Minister of Labo(u)r he criticizes the plans to direct the postwar deployment of workers, including returned military personnel, to whatever activities the ministry saw fit. I have often heard that what the British government contemplated in this regard toward the end of and after the war was sweeping in its assertion of authority over the individual, as Churchill notes here, but have done no research on it yet. (I am going to, for a book I am writing.) This is the first reference I have seen to the particulars.
The front page has an article on a Dakota Farmer being appointed to the Senate. It notes that “M.R. Young, Republican, Will Back Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy As Did Moses”. The part above the fold notes he is a member of the conservative wing of the Republican Party. Young went on to be one of the longest serving U.S. Senators and was the senior Republican at his retirement in 1981 (he chose not to run in what became a Republican sweep in 1980).
I have to admit that I have never heard of Milton R. Young. His wiki page does not note any significant legislation he was responsible for. I assume those reading the subhead would know that there had been a U.S. Senator named John Moses, but in the vacuum of today it is sort of funny that he replaced Moses. Moses had been elected in 1944 taking office in January and dying during heart surgery two months later.
John Moses (June 12, 1885 – March 3, 1945) was the 22nd Governor of North Dakota from 1939 to 1945, and served in the United States Senate in 1945 until his death that year.
Upon Milton’s retirement, Strom Thurmond became the senior Republican in the Senate, being just 5 years younger than Young. Strom held that distinction until his retirement 22 years later on his retirement in January 2003.
When I was there, there were 150,000 of us, military and US dependents.
Wikipedia: Kaiserslautern military community is a community of Americans living in and around Kaiserslautern, Germany supporting United States armed forces and NATO installations, such as the Ramstein Air Base, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Kapaun Air Station, Vogelweh Housing Area, Pulaski Barracks, Kleber Kaserne, Daenner Kaserne, Panzer Kaserne, Sembach Kaserne, Miesau Army Depot, and Rhine Ordnance Barracks. With around 53,000 people, including military service members, Department of Defense civilians and contractors as well as their families, the KMC is the largest U.S. military community outside of the United States.
While I was there I worked on closing communications and computer centers across the USAF in Europe. A good story about K-Town and the end of that era: U.S. pullout puts stress on Germans
After what they are witnessing now on Iwo Jima and will witness on Okinawa, the American people were going to support anything that would end the war without invading Japan proper.
Also, in my opinion, it led to unjust criminal convictions of American soldiers just doing their jobs.
We could never have run WWII this way.
You have distilled the essence of the situation very well. Moreover, what we learned later prevented much in the way of second thoughts.
Brave American soldiers. Risking their lives for the freedom they were fighting for.
The story of the selfless group that risked their lives by dashing on to the bridge at the Rhine to pull the wires minutes before detonation - what amazing guys.
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