Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-31
Both British,
u. S. Silent
On War Aims
America Being Showed In
TO Pay All Costs
By GEN. HUGH s. JOHNSON
X (Ths opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not neees-
sariIy those of The Detroit
Times.)


sarily those Of The Detroit
Times.)
QUITE properly and intelli-
" gently England doesn't state
any hard and fast war aims
except to defeat Hitler. But in a
more general way both Mr..
Churchill and Mr.. Roosevelt
have stated aspirations which
might be called war aims-even
for us who are not supposed to
be at war.
Mr.. Roosevelt's aims are to
insure TO the whole world the
-four freedoms" ID of express
sion, (2l of worship, 81 from
want. (4) from fear and hints
that we shall take part in this
reconstruction of the state of
mankind at mo distant millen-
nNm' but within our own time
and generation.
MIR. CHURCHILL has prom
w iSed us a part in this great
reform: land the day will come
when the British Empire and the
United States viii share to-
gether the solemn and Splendid
duties which are the crown Of
victory"
More and more emphasis is
being placed on this high en-
deavor by those who from the
beginning Of this European con-
flict have wished us on toward
war They started out insisting
on measures short of war" TO
help England because to help her
was not ito get us into war but
to keep US Quito keep the war
from our shores"
Now louder and louder that
chorus cries that we shall fight
10 remake a sorry world.
Fortune Magazine conducted
recently an instructive round
table debate or discussion by
experts, the result of which IS
published in the current issue.
IT is true that the conference
Il was rather heavily weighted
with American interventionists
and in;ellectualS who were par
Elephants from countries now in
Volved IN or conquered by this
war but the debate was free and
fairly reported. The majority
concluded that, at the end Of
the war, new order can be
created il, for its own best
interests" the United States
agrees 'at once TO assume a
large share Of responsibility for
reconstruction of the post
world which means. Of course.
get in the war and get ready,
to pay the bills at the end OF it.
They don't exactly propose
union now with Britain" but
they want Britain and US TO
create "at once a superior mill
tary and naval nucleus around
which the other peoples can
gradually be rallied"
THAT doesn't sound much like
Il laid TO Britain only 10 keep
us out of war" Mr. Churchill.
whose car is properly and ac-
curately attuned to what goes
on here. expressed somewhat
the same thought in his latest
report on the conduct of the
war.
Britain could, I believe, save
herself for the time being. but
IL will take the combined efforts
of the whole English speaking
world to save mankind and
Europe from the menace of Hit
lerism and open the paths of
progress TO the people"
II is pretty hard TO reconcile
all this with the former slogans
about our having TO put out to
save England. not as an alliance
with her. but in order to keep
our boys away from European
battlefields and about this be-
ing a war of machines and not
of men and p lit n doesn't
need or want our troops on the
other side.
More and more boldly all the
wraps are being dropped away
and it is becoming clearer. as
this column has long urged, that
we are being nudged, goaded,
coZened and Shoved-as one or
the other method seems at the
time most appropriate-intn
new utopian adventure 10 make
the whole world safe for some
thing or other. largely at our
expense and in some kind of
partnership with the Births
empire in a military, naval and
air alliance to dominate the
globe.
n X IF that is what our
We IN. people want but that
is very far beyond what they
have been told until very re-
Gently. 1t is the precise reverse
i i