Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-23

feat, but To help as TO Uie-
tOrV-quickly.
we don't UdRt this lCGr
Ia drag on for years.
We kHOW, too, that IN
less yOu come into this Udr
and fight IL Uith as, It's
goiag To take as a Tong time
Ia lriH IT,.
1T may take rs gears.
THIS Is an honest statement and
a true one.
II deserves an honest and sin
cere apswer-not lot of dear
old ding dong"
Are we going in the war or
not:
Are we actually going TO fight
alongside OF the British. or are
we going To mislead them with
false hopes--as Poland was misled.
and Norway and Belgium and
France and Greece and Yugo-
slavia?
1t will take years TO win this
war even il we do go into II
fighting on the British side.
IL is not going To he an easy
task TO find foothold on the Eu-
ropean continent and to fight and
defeat some eight or ten million
German. French. Italian, Hun
garian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, and
maybe Russian soldiers who know
their ground and are amply ra-
toned and equipped.
IL would be hard work 10 trans
port our mechanical divisions =
even IL we had them-across the
oceans.
IL would be hard work 10 feed
and supply some eight or ten mil
lion English and American soldiers
in a conflict three thousand miles
away.
But il we are going TO under
take the task. let us say so and
get busy DOING 1t.
IN THE other hand, II we are
" going into fixed policy of
PEACE. let us make that clear
not only to the British but to
our own people
Let us guarantee our own peace
and the peace of the Western
Hemisphere by making our own
defenses impregnable.
Furthermore, let us use all our
powers of might or persuasion or
favor or bounty to secure fair
and favorable settlement of this
foreign conflict for our good
friends, the British, and then and
thereafter cooperate with them
for mutual advantage i'm peace and
progress and i'm civilized de-
velopment - rather than In the
savagery OF war.
II THE President of the United
i States is sitting up nights wait
Ing for the opinion OF this column
mist, we can and hereby will re-
lieye his natural anxiety.
II the AXIS powers and their
allies in Europe, Asia and Africa
cannot conquer the British en-
pire-and they cannot
And IL the British empire and
the United States, fighting on the
side of the British empire. can
not for years conquer the Axis
powers deeply entrenched in their
distant stronghOlds,-
And II the nations of Europe
are willing TO accept new Eu-
ropcan order and, like France, see
in it,
And II the nations of Asia are
willing to agree to a new Asian
order and, like Japan and Russia,
bury age long enmitics In it,
And il the British empire and
the democracies of the world shall
remain undfsfurbed In their estab-
lished order and amply defended
In their Independence
Why not let all go their various
ways in peace, and not destroy
the wealth and welfare the
health and happiness - Of all the
world in futile war:
Why not bend our energies
towards peace and self-preserva-
ton instead of towards war and
universal and useless destruction
There is no question hut that a
proper peace could be achieved II
we thought and talked and worked
for peace as earnestly and sin
ccrcly as We have thought and
talked and worked for the dear
old ding dong OF war.