Evening star., 1941-11-19
Dynamic Will of American Public Seen os
Necessity in Holding World Together

World Together
ten a whole generation, which Is
old, beaten and disillusioned be-
fore its time.
And, unfortunately, it has
passed on its own will-lessness
to some Of the younger genera
ton, who want to be "guaran-
teed"-before they will lift a
hand against the burglar at their
door-that resistance will result
in Utopia-and that, somehow,
the Utopia will be made outside
their own wills.
Hence the negativism Of the
war-the lack Of intelligent and
articulate bodies of men coming
to grips with the war in an
Affirmative sense; in the sense
that We fight for this and this
and this, which Is reasonable
and desirable.
Even being against is. OF
course, the beginning of an awak-
ening To intend not to live
under Hitlerism Is an act OF
will.
Only = Will Against.
But it is will against and not
yet for. We have minds but
half made up. The war is only
to prevent-to prevent the Nazis
from getting control of the At
lantic; tomorrow, perhaps to pre-
vent the japanese from getting
control of the Pacific. Britain.
too, fights to prevent the British
Isles from falling and the COM
monWealth and empire from dis
integrating. Only the govern
ments in exile of small states
which have already fallen begin
to think of constructing, Of
creating, for they can no longer
prevent anything.
But the Nazi war also becomes
more and more a war merely to
prevent. That sticks out of all
the recent official speeches.
Goebbels wants to prevent 1.-The
inferno that will break out il We
lose" The Nazis know by now
that the dream Of being received
everywhere as the "liberator" is
finished. The world that was to
rise heralding the new order has
not risen 1t has instead put
bombs under railroad trains. APP
parently the Germanic will has
been running along a track that
leads to a dead-end street or
volcano. There has been plenty
of dynamism but no direction.
The "Volksstaat" i'll combines
with imperialism. as few Nazls
knew before Hitler purged them
all at the behest of his generals.
That country will win the war
who first most clearly discerns
the track of history and gets on
that track. That people can
save the world-perhaps-that,
going back to the Aristotelian
conception Of politics, has the
art to discern what is good for
mankind
Must Spring From People.
I believe it is almost hopeless
to await that discernment from
governments or politicians. for
even the best of them are the
prisoners of their own policies
and their own commitments.
Initiative must spring from the
peoples themselves.
And the American people hold
the clue to this war. if they can
awaken their imaginations and
wills. For this people is the New
World, and here are all the ele-
ments of Europe, cut loose, how
ever, from petty racialisms and
nationalisms, cut loose from
everything in Europe, except the
grand line of Europe as a whole.
A first necessity in the awaken
ing of a will, a will for, as we'll
as will against. is, therefore,
to avoid at all costs falling back
ward into a 100 per cent Amer
icanism." provincial in outlook.
Rather. We must seek to find the
fundamental trends. common to
the whole of Western civiliza-
ton, and construct. on those
trends, a program of reorganiza-
ton and reconstruction for
new Incorporation between Eu-
rope, Britain and ourselves. Only
a program that bids fair to ac-
complish this will mean peace.
And. if such a program is lifted
up, it will attract to itself the
peoples of the whole world.
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