The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-07-24
Do America and EngIond
Wont a Just Peace?

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as the representative of the United States
government proposes the establishment OF a
new League of Nations to enforce peace un-
der International military police system when
the Axis powers are defeated by the demo
cracies.
Mr.. Welles says that the fundamental
basis of such q peace must embrace these
three points:
/. Abolition of offensive ornaments and
the limitation and reduction Of defense
ornaments and of the tools which make
the construction of such ornaments pos
sible.
2. Establishment fully and adequately"
of economic rights to all peoples OF the
world and equal access to raw materials.
3. abolition of ornaments through
some rigid form of international supervis-
ion and control, without such practical
and essential control, no real disarmament
can ever be achieved"
After enumerating these points Mr.. Weiles
hastens to say that he realizes all these things
cannot be brought about until after the Demo
cracies finally and utterly destroy the Hitler
lite government of Germany.
1t is in keeping with the shallow brand OF
craftsmanship WI have today that Mr.. WelIes
should propose economic rights to all people
of the world with equal access to raw mater
ials after Hitler is destroyed.
He does not even examine the possibilities
VI Il JuSl DCdNC UCIuS ooo0s y"
fore millions of men are killed, before Amerl-
ca spends for ornaments until she has moth
iIp left with which to buy bread, before un-
told sorrow and misery is brought INTO the
lives of millions of our families because of
the loss of loved ones in a murderOus war.
No, Mr.. Welles says that after we have des-
troyed Hitler we will have a Just peace.
If it is the purpose of the American peo-
pie to see that a just peace comes about at
ter the fighting has stopped then we must
know that it would be more possible to bring
about a just peace before the main conflict
between Germany and England (and proba-
bly, the u. S. than it would afterward.
After waging the bitter world war ! a
Versailles peace was achieved, a peace which
stnisd Germany and brewed a World War 2,
according to the admission of English states
men.
If the purpose of the nations now en-
gagged in this war, including England and the
United States, is to bring about world con-
ditions wherein people of all nations can live
according to the dictates of their own con-
science with free economic rights for all and
never again permit any nation to arise and
overrun small nations, then we would say
tbs might be achieved before a German
English war. 1t will never be achieved af-
ter a Ge~rman-English war.
England has lost few men to date because
most of her strength has been concentrated
in the British Isles to ward off an attempted
invasion. After a long drawn-out war and
the lost of millions of her men in battle she
will De in no mood to make a just peace with
Hitler if she is victorious with American help.
Another Versailles will result and seeds for
another war 25 years hence will be sown.
Another Hitler will come into power.
To use our influence to bring about a
peace in which the English, Americans, Ger
mans, Italians and every small nation can
live unmolested in the world should be the
fervent plea of every American citizen. If
this can be done before we are drawn active
ly into the conflict, before American men
are killed and wounded by the millions, be-
fore we heap upon our backs the huge debt
that will amount to bankruptcy in our nat
ionaf government, before we bring about
through centralized control in our govern
ment complete dictatorship, then so much the
better.
Whether America is big enough for that
task we do not know.
Our actions in the next few weeks will
tell.