‘War in Europe: 50-Year Legacy’
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In the overview “War Turned Impoverished U.S. Into a Superpower” (Aug. 31), Stanley Meisler notes: “Some Americans feared that unemployment and depression would return after demobilization of the armed forces.”
I think at this point he should have mentioned that it was just this thinking that transformed the War Department into the Defense Department and put us on a permanent wartime economy.
RICK SANDFORD
Los Angeles
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