The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-04-17
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Hazel Brannon

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ported to have said about so per
cent of our congressman believe Hit
Ter will drop bombs on New York
City or some other eastern city be-
fore summer is over or as soon as
Hitler loses his patience. He i'm
piled that might happen any mo-
ment.
Men like Rep. H%amspeck should
not be allowed to go around the coun-
try telling such tales and soaring
people to death. IL it could pos
sibly be true that so percent of our
congressman actually believe what
the speaker said then they had bet
ter stop making speeches and start
making bombs. We have little en-
ough time left to defend ourselves
If this country is in any immediate
danger of invasion.
Personally, we believe Hitler has
enough to keep him busy for some
time on the other side of the At
lantic without opening up a new
front on this side of the world. He's
fighting the war on two fronts now
and that is quite enough.
Unless the English go down like
France and all the smaller nations
of Europe without fighting America
will have time to prepare to defend
herself. Even if England should go
down soon we have not yet begun to
quake in our boots that Hitler will
Immediately launch transports for
an invasion Of the United States.
Charles White McGehee, writing
in the Summit Sun, asks this ques-
ton, "Does it require intolerance
and Justification to win a war; lie
then tells about Campbell Johnson, q
Negro executive assistant on the
selective service program, who in a
Jackson speech made the statement
that Hitler had specified as one OF
his detectives ito enslave all nom
German whites and to exterminate
all Negroes"
might as well be yes as no. Most of
our wars are started and won On lies
and Justification. That is the way
we get in whether it is necessary
or not has nothing to do with the
question. Once a nation becomes en-
broiled in a conflict, as we have per-
mitted ourselves to become, We put
ourselves in a position where we
have to listen to lies, propaganda and !
the rke out Of all proportion. Making
the rounds of the country now is a
movie titled "The Beast of Berlin
People by the thousands will go to
the movies and become all excited
and worked up we the beast until
they get Mysteries for US to go over
and exterminate him. 1t usually turns
out that the ones who are most an
xious to do the DISCRIMINATING are
the ones who for some reason or a
mother are exempt from military
service.
Mr.. MeGehee in the same column
says that when a nation enters a
war, whether the entry be for a just
cause or not, the security and des-
tiny of that nation is at stake. He
continues:
There can be little doubling that
this nation has entered the European
war. In these times declarations of
war mean nothing. The passage of
the Lend-Lease bill, the presidents
avowed intention to carry on the
fight for democracy" everywhere,
the possible use of our navy for
convoy purposes, and seizure of the
Axis vessels, along with other ac-
tons, leaves little doubt but that we
are in the war. In the past this
column has criticized our foreign
policy, feeling that a belligerent at
titude needlessly endangered II
position and aggravated the Euro
pean situation. AS a loyal American
l expressed by views openly, some
times violently, utilizing a God-given
right to expound that which |
thought was best for my country
Particularly was there criticism OF
the idea that this nation, the strong
SSl oi Sdaht outt nv itua 'AN''
out the aid of the British Empire.
That this nation is in the war causes
a change in policy of this column
(not that this column makes or
breaks nations with its policies),
We feel that, whether our entry be
for the right or wrong, our security is
at stake for the wars duration,
so there will be no more criticism OF
foreign policy until there is again
peace and we begin building a new
world On sounder policies"
While we agree with Mr.. McGehee
that we are in the war we do not be-
iieve that any person in America
should feel that he should not ex-
press himself on how he feels about
the wal and how it is being pur-
suad in this country bv this admins