Evening star., 1940-12-31

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Channel in seven months, his bomb
ers won't fly across the Rockies to
bomb Denver tomorrow.
The only threat to our independ-
ence would be to join in some
Union of Free Nations called
in which we would be but a unit
and outnumbered and outgeneraled
by our good neighbors across the sea
Common Folk Pay for War.
Democracy! We cannot hold our
democracy except by prosperity and
improvement in the mechanics OF
democracy. This will not be aided
by joining the war.
The cost of this war will come out
! of the millions of poor people-the
common folk of the world who will
toll for generations to pay the cost
of the destruction.
War inevitably means back
breaking debt, blighted lives, be-
deviied futures. War means the end
of civil liberties-the end of free
speech, free press, free enterprise
1t means dictatorship and slavery
all the things we abhor in Nazi-ism
Communism and Fascism. 1t mean,
Stain or Hitler will have achieved
their boasts for totalitarian worlo
without conquering America.
The President in his speech last
night ridiculed the idea of a peace
in Europe. Conceding all that he 81
eloquently said about outlaws" the
concentration camps and the ser
wants of God in chainS"-what
about Russia and Joseph Stalin's
Communism? And have we not rec
ognized Hitler and Franco? Did W,
not at least acquiesce in Mussolini
and all his works?
! If we follow the logic of Mr.
Roosevelt, then we ought immedi-
ately to break off diplomatic rela-
tons with Russia, Italy, Germany
Japan and other nations whose do
mestic and foreign policies we abhor
And where do we go from there?
Regardless of when or who is pro-
claimed victor in the present war
it cannot last forever. Peace, fleet
ing though it may be, will eventually
come to Europe. At some time in
the future representatives of Eng
land and Germany will sit around
a tahle-some time they will agree
upon peace-and until that day, the
world suffers. Each of US, from the
President of the United States to the
most humble citizen, should exert
his every effort for peace, now.
Removal of Hitler, even the de-
feat of the German Armies, will not
destroy that which Hitler symbol
ICES. Hitlerism can be destroyed and
banished from Europe only by de-
stroying that which caused or main
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Lord Lothian Quoted.
Ask yourselves who and what we're
responsible for the real birth and
growth of Hitlerism.
Lord Lothian, until his recent
death wartime Ambassador from
Great Britain to the United States
said of Nazi-ism-I quote him: I'm
great measure it was rebellion
against the determinations of the
treaty of Versailles ." That
wasn't some Nazi sympathizer; that
was your friend, Lord Lothian,
speaking.
I firmly believe the German peo-
pie want peace just as any people
prefer peace to war-and the offer
of just, reasonable and generous
peace will more quickly and effec-
lively crumble Hitlerism and break
the morale of the German people
than all the bombers that could be
dispatched over Berlin.
A just peace is difficult, if not
impossible, to abstractly define while
war RACES. 1t is too completely de-
pendent on the attitude of the
belligerents.
A working basis for just peace
might involve among other factors
the following:
Cd Restoration of Germany's 1914
boundaries with an autonomous Po-
land and Czecho-Slovakia.
ca Restoration of independent
France. Holland, Norway. Belgium
and Denmark.
90 Restoration of Alsace-Lor-
raine to France.
(4 Restoration Of German colo
nies.
90 Protection of all racial and re.
igious minorities in all countries.
60 Decentralization of the
Suez Canal.
CD No indemnities or reparations
90 Arms limitation.
Can Remain At Peace.
The United States is no longer
trudging along the road to war
We are running. Some feel that We
have gone so fast and so far that
there can be no stopping return
to complete peace except via war
But we are at peace and we car
remain at peace If either one oi
two lines of action is pursued
First, Americans in greater number
must firmly resolve and express
themselves, that we will fight nc
offensive war. And. secondly, we
can remain at peace if the horrible
European debacle of death and de-
struction ends in the near future.
Though today we stand as close tt
the brink of war as we stood in Jan.
uary of 1917, some people still op.
pose European peace. Warmong.
ers, sordid romanticists, reckless ad.
venturerS and some whose symPa'
thies and sentiments are stronger
than their reasoning powers woulc
plunge this Nation into war; plunge
us into war from which we coulc
gain nothing; plunge us into q wal
that would destroy democracy-tha1
would bring deep, narrowing an