The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-11
ARMISTICE DAY is BEING
CELEBRATED HERE TODAY
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of great ideal. That ideal envisioned
World without war, a World in
which all nations lived in harmony and
peace exactly as our forty-eight states
had shown they could do on this con-
tinent, and World made safe for de-
mocracy. We went to war not just to
end this one but to end all wars!
To us the ending of that titanic
struggle, therefore, meant more than
the mere stilling of laundering guns.
To us it meant that our sacrifice on
behalf of all humanity had not been
made in vain. To US it meant the dawn
of what we dared to hope was a new
era in human relations, an era marked
by the spread of popular self-govern-
ment to all peoples, an era marked by
the settlement of international disputes
in an amicable manner around the
conference table instead of by resort
to force Of arms, an era when right
was to be enthroned as the master of
might, an era not to be known as just
another postwar era, but as the era
after war had been banished for all
time.
In our lofty idealism it seemed in
conceivable to US that every nation
had learned that WARS lesson is to
lessen war;" We took their cry of
"The end of war!" at face value. We
proffered our services and they were
accepted, for making "thee nd of war"
permanent reality for all nations.
We led them to council tables at which
disarmament was agreed upon. We in
duced sixty nations to renounce war
as national policy and to sign the
famous Kellogg non-aggression pact.
We dared to believe we mad scored
the greatest moral triumph in his
tory.
Was it all hollow mockery?
1t is fitting on this solemn occasion
that we not only pass in retrospect
along memory lane but that we take
stock of our situation today as the
steady tramp of Mars toward an
other World War is the ominous obi
cato to the maddest armament race
ever conceived by man.
In the past few years we awakened
to the painful realization that the
World War had rotted even the tim
bers of the characters of nations.
There developed an incredible collapse
of national standards of honor and of
respect for human rights and treaty
obligations. To it's amazed concern
America discovered that while this ma
ton was in earnest when it signed the
disarmament treaties and the Kellogg
pact, other nations had done their
signing with their fingers crossed!
To be sure, they had Joined US in
condemning war-but at the same
time even while they were protesting
their undying desires for an enduring
peace, they were cataloguing the
World War as UNFINISHED BUSI-
NESS!
They joined us in Instrumentation
paper! Actually they had outlawed
only DECLARATIONS OF WAR!
A war to end all wars? Who had
dared to hope for that?
On this nineteenth anniversary Of
the signing of the Armistice we see
all about US an insane World arming
to the teeth for the next war. Treaties
have become scraps of paper! Inter-
national lawlessness is abroad! Hostil-
titles are begun without even the ira
ditional courtesy of formal notice!
Non-combatants are no longer recog-
nized! Helpless civilian populations
are made targets for fiendish attacks
by the most horrible weapons that
modern war science can devise!
A war to make the World safe for