The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1941-08-21

erning body took upon himself the
authority to commit this country 70
eight peace aims when the
nation he ncads is theoretically at
pence.
Thosc points, which Mr. Roosevelt
signed with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill head of the English nation
now at war, committed this country
to certain common principles in
the national policies of their respec-
tive countries on which they base
their hopes for better future for
the world"
Those points call for: First, their
countries seek no aggrandzemen
territorial, or other. Second, they
desire to see no territorial changes
that do not accord with the freely ex-
pressed wishes of the people concern
ed Third, they respect the right of
all people to choose the form of gov
eminent under which they will live,
and they wish to see sovereign rights
and self-government restored to those
who have been forcibly deprived of
them
Fourth, they will endeavor, with
due respect for their-existing obliga-
tons, to further the enjoyment by all
states, great or small, victor or van
pushed, of access, on equal terms, to
the trade and to the raw materials OF
the world which are needed for their
economic prosperity.
Fifth, they desire to bring about
the fullest collaboration between all
nations in the economic field with the
object of securing, for all, improved
labor standards, economic advance
ment and social security.
Sixth, after the final destruction
OF the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see
established peace which will afford
to all nations the means of dwelling
in safety within their own boundar-
les, and which will afford assurance
that all the men in all the lands may
live out their lives in freedom from
fear and want;
Seventh, such peace should en-
and oceans without hindrance;
Eighth, they believe that all of
the nations of the world, for realis-
tic as well as spiritual reasons, must
come to the abandonment of the use
of force. Since no future peace can
be maintained If land, sea or air ar
maments continue to be employed by
at u,bt
threaten, aggression outside of their
frontiers, they believe, pending the
establishment of wider and per-
manent system of general security, |
that the disarmament of such ma |
tons is essential. They will likewise
aid and encourage all other prac-
ticable measures which will tighten
for peace-loving peoples the crushing
burden of ornaments
In the fourth objective we see the
main cause for the present war IF
England is honest in saying that all
nations should have equal rights to
world trade and to raw materials then
1t is more than she has ever admitted
IN thu past. Her history has been one
of ruthless trade expansion at the
expense of any country including the
u S.
In the sixth, "aim' we see the
impossibility of the whole eight
points. Carrying out all these peace
aims will be attempted only after
the destruction of Nazi tyranny.
Thus the United States is committed T
by the President to destruction of /
Nazi tyranny which is more an I'M
authorized declaration of war by the |
President of this country rather than |
a declaration of peace aims"
There are few optimists lief. ia /
the United States regarding Eng.
lands ability or willingness to rid [
the world of Nazi tyranny alone, even
if the arsenal of democracy supplies
her with every weapon she needs
Realists are now reluctantly admit
ing what we have assumed all along
that England will never fight
Germany alone.
The eighth principle calls for dis.
armament of all aggressor nations. 1t
says nothing about the "demoerac.
les disarming. We do not believe
that aim will be ever realized. Il is
hardly likely they can disarm Ger
many until they have crushed her By
the time we engage in a long-drawn
out bloody war that will be necessary
if she is chushed we will be ready for
another Versailles peace. And the
whole bloody business will be to do
over again in the future.
Perhaps it is true that We can
never make peace with Hitler. But
If we want peace before millions of
English and American lives are tax.
en-, before the American government
is bankrupted, before our country
is ravished from one end to the
other, We are going to have TO find
some ground for making peace with
him