Evening star., 1941-09-24
Unity on Policy and DiIieent Pursuit Of Aim
Held Essential to Goin Vito Ally, Time

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occurred in each nation when
it saw it was not next on the
line. Instead of grabbing that
30 or go or 80 days and using it
for enormously increased effort
we debated whether we wanted
to aid Russia instead of telling
ourselves the stark truth, namely
that we are not even aiding
Britain.
We are talking, talking end
lessly, debating whether or not
this is our war. We are ap-
propriating huge sums. But ap-
propriations won't win a war.
Hitler did not appropriate
money; he appropriated goods
training, clothing and arms, for
100000 men; Siegfried lines
and military highways, planes
and tanks, huge reserves OF oil
and metals, millions for inter-
national propaganda. We have
appropriated" $4,000 100000 in
lease lend aid. But Hitler spent
$4,000, 900, 600 before he moved a
soldier or a gun.
Germany is a tiny country
compared with the whole earth
"a small country compared with
all Europe-with a good indus
trial eQuipment-not as good as
America sand limited raw ma
terialS. But she has conquered
the whole industrial equipment
of Europe and is driving Russia
back into Asia, entering the rich
est part of that huge union. And
meanwhile we have actually sent
to Britain some s72 100000 worth
of arms-about l per cent of the
appropriation - including what
has gone TO the bottom OF the
ocean.
Moral Confusion Dangerous.
Although 80 per cent of the
people are not neutral, and our
policy is not and could not be
neutral, we still have neutrality
law on our books. Although we
are in imminent danger from the
Axis, and from the Axis alone,
Axis propaganda is introduced
into every domestic debate. and
those who oppose it are de-
nounced by the Wheelers and
Nyes as British propagandists!
This is moral confusion more
dangerous than lack of arms. For
it prevents us from getting the
arms! 1t justifieS unions to call
strikes. 1t keeps the Government
trying to mobilize public opinion
instead of forging weapons. 1t
permits partisan feeling to run
riot.
Don't the people of the United
States know that Hitler has
openly boasted that he will bring
down America by an inside job?
Don't the people of America ever
ask, Who is conducting that in
side job?" Motives are not i'm
portant in the life of a nation.
Senator Wheeler's policy, not his
character, is what is at issue,
and the question: Is that policy
helping America to become
stronger or weaker? History will
not judge any of us by our mo-
tives, but by the results of our
policies.
Time Favors the Diligent.
This country will not survive as
a free, independent and powerful
nation for another five years un-
less we unite, agree on a policy
and pursue it with everything We
have got, with every ounce of our
brains, efficiency, strength and
energies. (The extra 10 cents an
hour that unions are trying to
get for their workers will not buy
a postage stamp if this country
collapses. The automobiles that
continue to be put out in plants
that should be making more
planes will not carry us over
secure ground, if We are left alone
on this planet)
Time is not on our side. Time
is neutral. Times cares nothing
about totalitarianism or democ-
racy. Time Is on the side of the
people who use it, and use it
most efficiently.
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