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VJ Day in New York City (Yank, 1945)

"...On, on, on it went into the night and the next night as the biggest city in the world went its way toward picking up the biggest hangover in its history. It was a hangover few would ever regret."

Click here if you would like to read an article about the VE Day celebrations in Europe.

Click here if you would like to read about the VE Day celebrations in the United States.

A Degenerate Work of Art: Cubism (The Art World, 1917)

This essay is a classic piece of anti-modernism.

"The intellectual degeneracy of the modernistic movement of to-day can easily be traced back to the moral degeneracy of the Second Empire, created by the mephistophic traitor and despot Napoleon III..."

Three Soldiers by Dos Passos (Current Opinion, 1921)

A magazine review of the classic American World War One novel, "Three Soldiers" by John Dos Passos.

"This is the kind of book that anyone would have been arrested for writing while the war was yet in progress".

VJ Day in Washington, D.C. (Yank, 1945)

When World War Two finally reached it's end, the small, quiet and usually well-behaved city of Washington, D.C. gave a big sigh of relief, forgot about "Robert's Rules of Order" for the day and shrieked with joy:

"One officer, standing in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, waved a fifth of Rye at arms length, repeatedly inviting passers-by to "have a drink on the European Theater of Operations."

Click here if you would like to read an article about 1940s fabric rationing and the home front fashions.

Danzig Nazis (Literary Digest, 1936)

This 1936 magazine article presents a picture of the Polish city of Danzig as it was during the mid-thirties. It was a city in which Danzig Nazis, like Arthur Karl Greiser, spoke of making that town a part of Germany once more (it was ordained a Polish city as a result of the Versailles Treaty) and Minister Joseph Beck who liked everything just the way it was, thank you very much.

"NAZI PATIENCE: Neither Beck nor Hitler is anxious to come to a break over Danzig. Hitler, a sworn enemy of Soviet Russia, advises his Danzig Nazis to forbear from mentioning their intention of completely abandoning League control for secession to Germany..."

Hitler's troops invaded Poland on August 31, 1939.

U.S. Army Mobile Hospitals of World War Two (Yank, 1944)

The American military personnel who are wounded while fighting the terrorists (and their apologists) in both Iraq and Afghanistan are today the beneficiaries of a field hospital system that was developed long ago in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. The mobile hospitals developed by the U.S. Army Medical Corps has evolved into a unique life-saving force that has not simply relied on a trained staff but also a fast and well-fueled transportation system. This Yank Magazine article will give the reader a good look at how the medics and doctors had to work during the second War to End All Wars:

"A portable surgical hospital is a medical unit of four doctors and generally 32 enlisted men. They're supposed to work directly behind the line of battle and patch up casualties so they can be removed to an evacuation hospital. Sometimes part of the portable hospital personnel have to be removed, too."

Social Issues in Movies (The Stage, 1938)

Are you tired of Hollywood movies ranting on endlessly about one social or political issue after another? They certainly do make a good many of them:

Nuclear power................They're against it.
Antisemitism.................They're against it.
Alcoholism....................They're against it.
Racial segregation................They're against it, but in 1915 they were for it.
One glance at this 1939 article and you'll be able to blame it all on the poet Archibald McLeish (1892 – 1982) who clearly advocated for political posturing in American movies.

Paris on V.E. Day (1945)

Eyewitness accounts of all the excitement that was V.E. Day in Paris:

"On the Champs Elysees they were singing 'It's a Long Wat to Tipperary,' and it was a long way even the few blocks from Fouquet's restaurant to the Arc de Triomphe if you tried to walk up the Champs on V-E Day in Paris. From one side of the broad and beautiful avenue to the other, all the way to the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe in the Place de l'Etoile, there was hardly any place to breathe and no place at all to move. That was the way it was in the Place l'Opera and the Place de la Republique and all the other famous spots and in a lot of obscure little side streets that nobody but Parisians know."

Siegfried Sassoon On War Poetry (Vanity Fair, 1920)

The following five page article was written by the World War One poet, Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), in an

"attempt to give a rough outline of what the British poets did in the Great War, making every allowance for the fact that they were writing under great difficulty...".

Sassoon gave a thorough going-over of every war poet that he admired, naming at least twenty. It is a wonderful and revealing read for all those who have come to admire the poets of the First World War and Sigfried Sassoon in particular.

Japan's Puppet (Literary Digest, 1936)

A brief notice reporting on Prince Teh Wang (Prince Demchugdongrub 1902 - 1966), ruler of Inner Mongolia who, in an attempt to create an independent Mongolia, simply ruled as an appeaser of Imperial Japan:

"While Prince Teh's postion, as a Japanese puppet, can scarcely be less comfortable than it was before , Japan has a grip on the bottle-neck controlling a vast, ill-defined hinterland of North China; and has as well a buffer State between her own influence and that of the Soviets."

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