Evening star., 1939-05-08
Wants United Front
Against Dictotors
Believes Preservation Of Our
Freedom Depends on
Timely Action
To the Editor OF The Star:

Not far in the past, the universal sin
of the major nations was the exploitation
and absorption of the weaker ones. But
1t is heartening to know that few of
the more advanced peoples have come to
recognize the sinful folly and futility of
this policy. 1t kept the world in con-
slant turmoil; caused all the major wars
known to history. And 1t retarded prog
ress in every branch of civilization by
perpetuating distrust, rancor and ami
mostly between nations.
The nations of the world rightly con-
stitute one big family, each nation hav-
ing certain inalienable rights peculiar to
race, location and environment, which
should be preserved inviolate, so long as
they labor and worship under their own
wine and fig tree" But when one or
more become obstreperous and in any
manner threaten the peace and tran
guilty of others, they should be promptly
and effectively disciplined and made to
suf1er penalties commensurate with the
offense. IT we question the justice Or
eXpedlency of this procedure, we NAV. by
the same process of reasoning, abandon
our penal institutions and give our
criminals the untrammeled privilege to
rob- rape and murder indiscriminately.
as their evil inclinations may suggest.
We are all essentially for peace. But
there Will be no peace for the sake of
peace, for it will always be alloyed with
a measure of the enforced or bargain
counter type. Yet, until some SEM
blance of permanent peace is established.
all efforts to restore national and in
ternational economic balance and conse-
quent prosperity will be sgnally futile.
since such colossal aggregate of the
worlds energies and expenditures are
being diverted from the regular channels
OF domestic comfort and felicity to the
construction of mammoth death-dealing
equipment for offense and defense.
1t is known to all and sundry that the
Eastern Hemisphere is permeated bv an
aoldlng and consuming racial hate that
Is augmented by the slightest question
and ameliorated only at a price. And
there Is formulating among these dcta-
torshlps blend of Nazi- ism and Fascism
that is the nucleous of an ominous and
momentous war cloud that imperils the
equilibrium of the entire world, and
which, II not dissipated in its incipiency,
will inevitably precipitate the most de-
Wasting holocaust known to history
This insidious, aggressive, dictatorial
ambition knows no bounds or restraint.
1t is purely arbitrary 1t holds nothing
sacred. 1t makes of the right of suf-
frage a sham and a misnomer. 1t is
destroying the freedom of press and
speech, and practically all other civil
liberties, wherever it plants its cloven
foot
1t is sad commentary on the intel
ligence of people who blindly and
dumbly follow these "bellWether' para
sites and allow themselves to be saddled,
straddled and ridden in reverse against
time and progress into orgies of pillage
and plunder that rival any vandalism
known to the dark ages, and ultimately
resulting in the forfeiture of the conf
dence and respect of neighboring nations.
Our good neighbor policy toward these
belligerents has been disgustingly over
worked 1t has not been in the least re-
ciprocated, and all our overtures have
been met in a purely mercenary spirit
and followed by further threats and en-
croachments.
Verify we are living under the Sword
of Damocles," for we are no more i'm
mune to the ravages of this raging flame
of hate, envy and conquest than we will
be to the wrath of an avenging God if we,
for mercenary or other considerations,
fail to preserve-at any cost-for pos
terity the sacred heritage of free press,
speech and suffrage, bought by the su-
blime courage and the supreme sacrifice
of our fathers of the Revolution.
We need men in high places among our
democracies who have courage of their
convictions to declare openly and un-
equivocally against the spread of this
pernicious force and the atrocities fol-
lowing in its wake. They would find
themselves backed to the "gills" by an
invincible people who, though abhoring
war to the uttermost, would valiantly
rally to the standards of higher civiliza-
ton as against this menace to freedom.
Dodging the issue is only multiplying
our difficulties in eventually meeting the
situation and magnifying the tragedy to
follow, for the ultimate conflict between
these opposing forces cannot be averted.
We-of the good old United States
are very wisely averse to entangling al
liances, having lately sacrificed lot OF
good American blood and about thirty
five billion smackers in an unsavory and
futile experiment of that character. But
without the execution of timely, we'll
directed and definite movement on our
part, we will soon be as deeply involved
in this life and death struggle between
imperialism and democracy as our de-
linquent friends across the pond. And
to submit to this oppressive oligarchy
would be to put the world into the throes
of the most excruciating travail, the is
sue from which would be reversion to
the rack and inquisition.
Hence, however repugnant and dis
tasteful, it is but the part of common
sense and wisdom to join forces with
other countries in this particular cause.
in order to minimize the catastrophe and
secure more safe and sane outcome.
In the meantime we should have a
thorough house-cleaning. We annually
appropriate vast sums for the eradica-