Evening star., 1940-12-28

are ullCOiisSiOuoiy "a
working.
This is not the same thing as
wishing for peace, since peace can
be a desert or a prison or q grave.
The evils which express themselves
so savagely in war are also present
in those tragic intervals which his
torians-but not moralists-label
"peace." The struggles by which
groups and nations seek to impose
their will or TO satisfy their greeds
have never been halted when the
hugles blow Cease fre!" and the
victories of peace can be as tragic
as those of war, as witnesses the
history of the 20 years between the
armistice of 1918 and the Munich
crisis of 1888.
Release for Creative Forces.
But the revolution Of freedom"
is what TIE Germans seek to attain
through the New Europe" what
Japan pursues through the new
order in Asia" what America has
sought under the New Deal Italy
through Fascism. England through
total defense and Russia through the
Third International.
| At it's heart lies the simple concept
of a freedom which shall release the
creative forces Of mankind by re-
moving the ancient tyrannies which
drive men, groups and nations into
violence and savagery. For us Roose-
welt has voiced the principles Of the
revolution of freedom by freedom
from want, freedom from insecurity,
freedom from fear.
Until all men have due measure
of these freedoms no man can re-
main free for long. This is the
lesson which America has been
taught in the generation between
1914 and 1941. Then we learned
that neither total victory nor total
isolation would long hold back the
forces which today beat upon our
society from within and from with
out, producing strains, bitterness
and uncertainties beyond all of our
experience.
The totalitarians seek their free
dom through a master race or a
master class, for which all others
shall be lesser breeds or slaves. Yet
all history shows that there Is no
slavery so cruel as that suffered by
those who enslave others. There
is no insecurity so great as that Of
those who must stand guard over
the spoils of total conquest. No
world revolution can count itself a
revolution of freedom if its con-
tinuance depends upon the indefi-
mite absence Of secret or spiritual
opposition.
Road to Freedom Urged.
So, fellow citizens of the world
for January /, 194l, give you but
one wish, one hope, one New Year
resolution. Work together, In
friendship if you may. in enmity If
you must, for the only revolution
which can outlast the lifetime Of a
single man now Iving-the revolu-
ton of freedom
Let each race and nation seek to
redress inequality within its own
borders, to prevent want, to dis
VllOuOC oCCulIy, W cllIllIldUc lcaI
Let these be the tests of all public
policies. Ask yourselves whether
this or that makes for more or less
freedom within the orbit Of your
authority.
Only as this revolution of freedom
advances throughout the planet will
1t be possible for the groups. the
individuals and the nations which
now fear or distrust each other, to
demobilize their hatreds, to modify
their fierce doctrines, to create far
greater than the spoils of any con-
quest.
For today we realize that the
world cannot continue to live half
enslaved to fear and want and in
security, and half free. Either it
will 60 down to barbarism or will
rise to freedom. So, men and women
OF the world, take the road to free
dom and offer it to you.
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