Satevepost Turns a Page

In Seattle last week the president of the National Association of Manufacturers, Walter D. Fuller, who is also president of Curtis Publishing Co., was quoted as saying: "I have been pretty consistently an isolationist. So has the Saturday Evening Post--although that policy will change next week." Later that day Mr. Fuller corrected the report: "Somebody twisted my statement. The Post is not changing its policy. All anybody has to do is read the lead story in this week's issue."

Called "Out to Shake the World," that article, written by the Post's chief editorialist, Caret Garrett, went into a paean over "an armament program on a scale never hitherto conceived . . . not for ourselves alone but for the British Empire, for the Chinese, for any country now or hereafter that will fight the aggressor until he is dead.

"It is what we call the American way of life we are going to defend. That sounds quite simple. Yet in defense of the American way of life it is the whole world we are going to shake. ..."

This week Satevepost editorializes: "Everything we said on the losing side we still believe. We could wish that much less of it had begun to come true. Yet whether we were right or wrong no longer matters. . . .

"We shall have to make up our minds to go on and on at any cost, to reconquer Europe and destroy Hitler there, even with American man power--or turn back; and if we turn back we shall be remembered forever as the Falstaff nation of the world, boasting of a power it did not really possess. . . . In going on we face the possibility of defeat. . . . But to go back is to face the possibility of national death. . . . That is the reality as we see it; that is the reality we accept. . . ."

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