Quagmire Alert-familiar postwar laments

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Quagmire Alert
JessicasWell.com reprints an article from Life magazine complete with the familiar postwar laments:

The troops returning home are worried. "We've lost the peace," men tell you. "We can't make it stick." . . . Friend and foe alike, look you accusingly in the face and tell you how bitterly they are disappointed in you as an American. . . . Never has American prestige in Europe been lower. . . . Instead of coming in with a bold plan of relief and reconstruction we came in full of evasions and apologies. . . . A great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease. The taste of victory had gone sour in the mouth of every thoughtful American I met.

Hey, wait a second. Didn't Life magazine go out of business a couple of years ago? Why yes. This article, by John Dos Passos (1896-1970), appeared in Life's Jan. 7, 1946 issue