Evening star., 1940-12-27
Willing to Fight
For Real Peace
Peoples Will Is Set
On Aid to Britain,
Writer Insists
To the Editor of The Star:


Writer Insists
To the Editor of The Star:
note that not only the fifth column,
but all of the columns Of page Ais
of your edition December % were de-
voted to an advertisement by the mo
Foreign War Committee" of which
Verne Marshall is chairman.
This Mr.. Marshall evidently thinks
that he can frighten the people Of the
United States out of their manifest de-
termination to give full aid to Britain,
Greece and China in their struggle to
preserve the world against Hitlerism, by
waving grisly pictures before their eyes.
This sort of propaganda must indeed
be very gratifying to Hitler, and
have no doubt that Mr.. Marshalls ap-
peal for funds to carry on his defeatist.
business as usual" campaign will find
ready response from the German Amer
lean Bund, the Communist party. cer-
tain industrialists and businessmen who
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Hitler, and some timid souls who are
completely mesmerized by the tall stories
of Nazi invincibility.
Mr. sMarshall's "Goblins -get-you-if-
you don't watch Z out" campaign will
surely back-fire on him when thought
full people see in his gruesome pictures
fairly accurate presentation of the situ-
alton in a world which has succumbed
to Hitler, rather than the result of re-
sisting Hitler's domination. Remember
the blood purges" in Germany and
Austria?
I do not believe that even the good
people of Iowa will be deceived by the
reference to such noble names as WASH
ington Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Pat
rick Henry and Abraham Lincoln, in
connection with such a cause. Can we
imagine George Washington conjuring
up, for the people of the colonies, grim
pictures of the future sufferings OF the
army at Valley Forge, or pessimistically
implying that they would lose nearly
every battle of the war to George III,
the particular instrument of oppression
of that day? Did Thomas jefferson pull
his punches when denouncing Napoleon
for his depredations? Doesn't Mr.. Mar
shall know that the Monroe Doctrine
was the joint product of Great Britain
and the United States and was aimed
at halting the real or fancied possibility
Of intrusion of Russia and Spain in
this hemisphere?
And, If I should start quoting Pat
rick Henry's famous speech, I am sure
that Mr.. Marshall would accuse me of
melting the country to an immediate
declaration of war. Remember? why
stand we here idle? Our brethren are
already in the field - Gentlemen may
cry Peace! Peacer but there is no peace
We must fight! Give me
liberty or give me DEATH"
Finally, how about Lincolns idea that
this country cannot exist half slave and
half free? Would not the Great Emanci-
pator today extend his statement to
cover the whole world? Yes, Mr.. Mar
shaus witnesses seem to have failed
him.
1t appears to me that the mistake
Mr.. Marshall makes Is in thinking that
the present conflict Is lust another
foreign war" the outcome of which is
Of no concern to us; when, in fact, 1t
Is world revolution of an immensely
more serious nature than that of the
Communist International. The Nazi
revolution is much more dangerous to
this country and more likely to succeed
because of the fact that so many people
like Mr.. Marshall are asleep. We recog-
nize Communism at once for what it is,
but we are too prone to believe that
Hitlerism is merely localized national
istic disturbance of one country Ger
many, and not the manifestation Of
world revolution. Hitler said, after
Munich, that he had no further terri
torial ambitions in Europe; now he is
shrieking for the extension of the new
order over the whole world, Ito protect
the German worker from the plutocra-
cies of America and Great Britain"
Can any one really believe that there is
any essential difference in the aims of
the Red Bolshevism of Stain and the
Brown Bolshevism of Hitler?
deplore also the sectional issue which
Mr.. Marshall is attempting to raise A
few days ago he was quoted in the press
as stressing a supposed difference in
the attitudes of the people living east
Of the Alleghenies and those of the
Middle West Is not this just the sort
OF attack on national unity that Hitler
desires, and has used so successfully in
breaking down nation after nation?
Further, in his holy zeal for a peace
that Is no peace, he forgets that true
peace is based on universal justice, and
the craven seeking of peace" that
Is not the by-product of such justice
and Righteousness certainly does Moth
ing to preserve 'the honor, dignity and
power which are inherently Americas"
Like the well-loved and respected Will
liam Allen White, hope that we will
not have to 60 to war, but if the alter
native is to see the destinies of the whole
world come under Nazi control, then
there may be some things worse than
war. We can work tooth and nail to
uphold the hand of those who are bear
ing the burden of resisting aggression,
and still work and pray for peace-"not
as the world giveth"-but peace based
on security, honor, integrity and JUS
tice. And this attitude will be more
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