Evening star., 1940-06-26

told We are wholly unprepared to
defend ourselves.
U. s. Not Organized
For Modern War.
Our military leaders say to the
Congress, We are not organized for
modern war, we do not have more
than 75,00c fully equipped men.
Despite the growing menace In
the air, and the expenditure of $50
millions Of dollars on the Air Force
in the last six years, Gen. Arnold
says not half dozen of our Army
planes are modern.
If we spend another 6.2 billions
and get no more actual defense than
from the last 81 billions nobody will
be afraid of us.
Yet the lives of our children. the
fate Of our Nation, the future Of our
civilization are at stake. We cannot
risk failure. This is another battle
which America better not lose. II
We are to achieve preparedness we
must have change in our national
administration.
PART VII.
Foreign Relations
The flrst line of our, national de-
tense Is clear. realistic and sober
foreign policies directed to secure
respect, good will and peace.
To realize that ideal. during the
whole IL years of Republican ad-
ministrations. after the last arm
istice, we strove to keep the face of
civilization turned toward good will
and peace. Americans saved Europe
and Russia from collapse in famine.
Americans led the advance on meth
ods OF settlement of international
controversy by peaceful means. We
led the world to reduce naval arms
and lifted billions from the backs Of
all who toll. We led in constructive
proposals for land disarmament. We
set moral standard In the world bv
refusal to recognize the murderous
regime in Russia. We refused to
issue Communist license to under
mine our institutions. We had or
ganized world conference to stabil-
ize currencies and by removing
trade barriers to give the world a
chance. That conference was scut-
tied by Mr.. Roosevelt. That killed
the last hope of world cooperation.
Isolation From Wars and
Economics Impossible.
The immense task now is to shape
our foreign policies to protect us
from the conflagration in Europe
and Asia.
There is no such thing as our
Isolation from wars which envelop
two-thirds of all the people in the
world. The Monroe Doctrine alone
Is the negation of that There is no
such thing as economic isolati
Those shocks jam through the doors
OF our farmers and our workers
every hour. There is no such thing
as moral isolation. These viola tions
OF treaties and agreements raise
dangers to the reign of law every
where. There is no such thing as
intellectual and spiritual isolation.
Emotions come through the air in
every telegraphed and printed word.
From all this there are shifting
dangers in which the Nation should
have common counsel that we NAV
have national unity. In a few DAYS
this convention will have chosen our
national leader. The President will
be able to secure from him the
views Of our party upon those
transcendent questions.
| Today thousand tragedies to
mankind crash one after another.
Our emotions are inflamed. We
are hostile to totalitarian ideas.
We resent aggression. We are in
dlgnant at brutality. Our natural
sympathies are with democracies
fighting for their freedom.
But here and now America must
summon reason to control emotion.
/ The greatest quality of men in
danger, second only to courage, is
cool, deliberate action. That is
equally the necessity in a nation.
An idealism as never before must
keep its feet on the ground of
realism.
Ocean and Z. S. Navy
Give Time for Preparation.
The first policy of calm realism
is not to exaggerate our immediate
dangers. Every whale that spouts
is not submarine. The 5000 miles
of ocean is still a protection. The
air forces, tanks and armies of
Europe are useless to attack us un-
less they establish bases in the
Western Hemisphere. To do that
they must first pass our Navy. 1t
can stop anything in sight now. In
any event. this ocean and our mag
nlf1cent Navy give time for sober
preparation.
The second policy in realism is
competent preparedness. We must
be armed so that no foreign nation
Will entertain the dangerous thought
OF starting over these 5000 miles
of ocean. We must be so prepared
that We can rely solely upon our
own right arm.
We need Navy powerful as never
before. Rather than a vast ac-
cumulation of arms, we must have
an industry tuned up to turn out
war machines faster and better
than any nation on earth. We need
trained personnel of KEY men in
reserve. We have the resources,
the genius. the industry to make us
lmpregnable.
Sound National Finance
Also Needed for Preparedness.
But preparedness Is not only max
ing armies and navies. 1t must
be supported by a sound national
finance, national economy and a
restored productivity of our people.
And before we can have prepared
ness We must have competent or
ganization in Washington.
New Deal politics will never make
tyranny tremble.' I support we
might frighten tyrants by appoint
Ing another board to advise the
Advisory Commission of the Coun-
Gil OF National Defense.