Evening star., 1940-06-11
Peace Society Official
Urges Aid to Allies.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
All of us Americans wish our country
to act with intelligence. especially in
these crucial times. What of the times?
England and France entered upon this
war to prevent Germany from annexing
certain countries adjacent to their
borders. They had been warned by Herr
Hitler that these border countries could
not work together; that, being demo-
cracies, they would waste their time talk
ing while he would be doing business:
and that, therefore, it would be easy for
him to get them one by one" The
Fuhrer has now got Austria, Czecho-
slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg. The
fate of France and England is now hang
ing in the balance.
When such professedly free, sovereign,
independent peoples are being moved
down by the mechanical forces Of stark
aggression, not only Americas priced
principles-principles including freedom
in the realms of speech, politics, and
religion-but the very physical founda-
ened. The more the destruction, the
more the threat. In other words, that
life and death struggle in Europe is
coming more and more to make of us
parties in interest.
In the light of such a serious and
changing situation what should America
do? In the first place, it surely would
serve no useful purpose to lead Germany
and Italy to believe now that we are
timorous people torn by conflicting ad-
vice and fearful of responsibility, that
we who dare still to believe in the pos
sibilities OF warless world are stunned
to silence and inaction, that we approve
the part of the coward Doubling in his
adject spirit, till his Lord is crucified."
This means that we cannot be justi-
fled playing the role of the priest and
the Levite, passing by ION the other side"
The perpetrators of blitzkrieg should not
be allowed to destroy by mere physical
force what we of the western world con-
ceive to be fundamental human rights,
rights struggled for and won in the name
of freedom and democracy, we merely
standing by the while. 1t is clear that a
victory by ruthless aggression could only
postpone, and that for long time, the
accomplishment of any just and lasting
peace in the world.
Since the interests and ideals of
America are being imperiled, since what
we conceive to be right Is endangered by
what we believe to be wrong, we must
associate ourselves with those who believe
that the United States should openly
throw its economic and moral weight
now on the side of the Allies. Nazi ag-
gression should be halted. We are
morally bound, therefore, to play an
honorable and worthy part in that busi-
ness. We have come face to face with
the necessity of choosing between two
evils, in which case it Is our duty to
choose the lesser, and to choose with an
unfaltering unity and nobility OF pur-
pose.
The United States faces three imme-
diate duties: One to itself, one to the
civilian sufferers from war. and one to
the Allied nations. This means that our
country should spend every ounce of its
energy to keep the devastations of war
away from this hemisphere, which means,
among other things alas, that we as q
people must turn realistically to increas-
ing our defenses under the direction of
our best minds, including our ablest mas
te9B Of industry. ItA means also that