Nogales international., 1940-07-06
ThePacifists

THE pacifsts have much for which to answer to the
American people. The state Of unpreparedness in
which country finds itself in the present critical
time is due very largely to the activities of a small
but vocferouS band of pacfsts who center about the
congressional halls in Washington. By their intense
activities and loud mouthed protests they have
influenced congress out of all proportion to their
bers There has been every indication that for several
years the congress of the United States has stood in
deadly fear of the pacifists.
While some of these pacfists are doubtless sincere
in their belief that the way to peace lies in being -
armed and unprepared, there is little doubt that 9TH
among their numbers inspired by motives ni-
mcal to this country The sincere pacfists have been
the tools and front for this subversive element in
their ranks whose aim is to keep America unprepared
The desire and will for peace have not been suffi-
cient; particularly is this true in modern times China
the shining example No doubt the peoples of over
run Czechoslovaka, Poland Norway, Holland and
Belgium desired peace They had no will for war; but
war came to them in a terrible and devastating
manner.
It is ridiculous to claim that preparedness would
tend to launch the United States upon militarstic
career. That is utterly opposed to national will
All the lessons of history vndicate our country from
such charge.
Every in which our nation has been engaged
has been for the purpose of bringing liberty either to
ourselves or to others. We have never engaged in
of conquest for the purpose of seizing territory
belonging to other peoples in order to establish
suzerainty them We will In order for such
thing tocome about it would be necessary complete
ly to change the ideology and national viewpoint of
the American public
Yet, in the face of all these things to the contrary
little group of vehement pacfists has succeeded in
influencing national policy to the extent that
country faces critical threat in sad state
of unpreparedness
Due unquestionably to the protests of the pacfsts
the greatest single group of young in the coun-
try who will be the first to man the trenches in case
Of war, have received no military training whatever
More than million young men have passed through
the Civilian Conservation Corps camps. They were
furnished good food comfortable clothing, quarters
medical attention, educational opportunities and paid
salary by the government - all at the expense of
how to do aboutface squads right left. The
pacfists to it that they did not receive the
fundamentals of military training. We have spent
billions of dollars of public monies to provide work
for the unemployed yet, very little of these
expenditures went to increase the military prepared
ness Of our country. Millions of worked at far
less important and vital jobs.
It is fair to assume that this national policy of do
ing every type of public work except that which would
improve our national Defense was due to the opposi-
ton of the pacifists.
Indeed they have much to answer for to the Ameri-
can people.
We have no wish for war and much less desire for
conquest
Yet the best insurance that the people of the Unit
ed States can have against lies in being so well
however mighty, will dare attack us.