Evening star., 1941-08-31
The Peace Which Is TO Come
Eight Points Hailed as Worlds Salvation
H. g ellis

IN LnlS matter. 1nat is tnolr neVlCaDle
future. There Is no alternative but ab-
solute submission Of soul and blood, your
blood, your children, your womenfolk to
an Axis conqueror, so why make fuss
about these necessary rational conces-
sions? There is no freedom now for
end to end Of the earth. We cannot be
too insistent upon this subordination of
petty patriotisms of the past to the
larger liberties of federal humanity.
Under free trade. release from strategic
preoccupations and transferable citizen
ship in the American union, the need
and will for expanding boundaries have
completely vanished. They make no
sense there. No one ever heard of any
scheme for a greater Texas, or a read
justment of the Louisiana boundary, or
claims of New Jersey To Riverside drive.
The American States get along very well
with boundaries drawn along the lines
of latitude and longitude. If the
boundary runs through house, 1t is
a joke.
Expansion Dreams Must End
But even in these days of paper short
age, my wastepaper basket is full of
vast, imposing documents displaying the
claims Of Poland, Hungary, Rumania,
etc, to fantastic expansions. The
dreams of greater Poland now must be
seen to be believed. They are dreams
of romantic political adventurers who
care about as much for the welfare of
the common people of Poland as Hitler
does for the cannon fodder of agri-
cultural Germany That sort of thing
has to cease at any cost to the map
dreamers.
Nor is America bothered by minority
problems which are stirred up on this
side by political mischiefmakers of the
old order. There is no perpetual wrangle
about persecution of the downtrodden
Vermonters in New York State or the
wrongs of the Kansas minority in Mis-
souri,. Nine -tenths of such trouble in
Europe is stirred-up trouble, fostered
by great power propaganda and sus-
tanned in partisan schools. There is no
haggling with it. The conditions of the
armistice must rule out any justifica-
ton for that ever-festering disloyalty
to mankind.
There are two questions that have to
be asked and must be answered hence
forth when people or a government
demand a strategic frontier. One ques-
ie. ~ +1 Eoh
and why? The other question con-
Germs the making or possession of lethal
weapons. That question will be: Whom
is this intended to kill? The answer to
any excuse Is: But this Is an affair of
our Federal control.
So it is that foresee this war to end
war drawing on toward definite, pre-
arranged armistice. I see not only es-
tablishment by the allies of these great
major commissions for disarmament and
economic control, but also the setting
up of number of secondary world
organizations for return of displaced
populations, for return Of stolen prop
erty, for rebuilding Of devastated re-
gions, for restoration Of world health,
for the trial Of gross criminals, for re-
organization of the legal profession upon
modern world lines and Herewith the
gradual legalization of what must be at
the outset, in the case of this world
revolution, as in the case of all funda-
mental revolutions, impromptu arrange
ments.
Adjustments Unforeseeable.
I do not think it is possible to fore
see, and I do not see any attempt to
foresee, how the local life Of states, cities
and nations will adjust itself to the new
conditions within the great peace of the
armistice as the armistice settles down
to become a new order of the world
But the only way to any endurable new
order in the world lies through victory,
and a standing armistice seems to me
to be incontrovertible.
Now that distance has been abolished
and mans power of squandering his
capital beyond all recovery has become
practically limitless, I cannot imagine
any other outlook. I believe the declara-
ton of the Atlantic is a major turning
point in the history of the human race
(Copyright. 1s41, by North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine)