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The Veterans' House Divided
Price, William | May 25, 1946 issue

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A sergeant from Minnesota had been reading a veterans' newspaper in the Red Cross club opposite Tokyo's imperial palace. He folded the eight-page weekly, banged it across his knee, and let the other soldiers sifting near know what he thought about it. It is true that competitive squabbles are mounting as veterans' organizations bid for more than fourteen million potential members. For better or worse, the expected political unity of organized returned service men is splitting wide apart. Going into the discard, perhaps prematurely, is the prediction that out of World War II would emerge the greatest mass pressure group in history, formed on the pattern of the Grand Army of the Republic and the American Legion.

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WAR -- Economic aspects; SOLDIERS; VETERANS; POLITICAL participation; POLITICAL activists; UNITED States -- Armed Forces; UNITED States
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