THE MORE THINGS CHANGE: We’ve already seen the 1946 Life Magazine coverage noted by Jessica’s Well. Now reader Jack Callahan sends this picture from the Saturday Evening Post, and comments:
After reading the headline of the cover story of tomorrow’s (11/2/03) New York Times Magazine (“Who Botched the Occupation”) I happened to spot the attached Jan 26, 1946 Cover Page of the Saturday Evening Post (it was on the wall of a local barber shop).
Note the upper right hand corner (assuming the image makes it to you) – a feature story is entitled “How we botched the German Occupation”.
My brief search did not locate the contents of the article, but I though you might find the cover amusing.
Indeed I do. Anybody have the article?
UPDATE: No copies yet. But reader Duffy Burdick has an interesting observation:
RE: The Saturday Evening Post cover—Note that it is a collective ‘We’ that “botched” the Occupation, not President Truman nor by extension, President Roosevelt. It suggests that there was still a sense that ‘We’ as a nation had been attacked and ‘We’ as a nation had responded.
Today, the media faults President Bush, e.g. , “Bush’s War” , “Bush’s Failure” , or his Administration without the slightest hint that we may all be in this together, regardless of our domestic partisan proclivities. Sad, really.
Yes, it is.
UPDATE: Reader Kathy Nelson has actually gotten the article and typed in the whole thing. I’ve read it and put some representative excerpts below (click “MORE”). I’d like to to put the whole thing up, but that’s probably beyond fair use.