Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

Miss Thompson are her oUn and
not nseessariiy those OF The
Detroit Tines.)
ALL great wars are fought fol-
"A peace. They are showdowns
10 determine the conditions under
which hundreds Of millions Of men
are 10 live their peacetime lives
once the war is over.
Some wars merely seek 10 bring
about readjustments of power in
side A generally accepted interna-
tional order. There are wars for
adjustment of frontiers, or trans
ference of colonies.
One side wins, and the loser
emerges stripped of some OF It's
territory. forced, inevitably, to pay
the costs of the war. but other
wise intact, and able in another
generation or two to challenge Il
it chooses, the power situation
again.
Such was the Franco PruSsian
War of 1870; such was the Great
War of 1914.
But there are other wars that
change the whole course OF his
tory, end epochs and begin new
ones, exterminate peoples as peo-
pies, and transform all values.
Such a war was Spartas war
against Athens: such war was
Caesars against Gaul, which lad
the foundations for the rise OF the
Roman Empire, TO exercise a
monopoly over history for hun
dreds of years.
Such was the series of wars
against the Turks. which finally
drove the Mohammedans out OF
Europe and established the Sc
curity of Western Christian civili-
cation. And such war is this
one.
THE outcome of this war Will
i determine how humanity is
going TO live for the next epoch.
Not how Germany. or England,
or the United States are going to
live. but humanity. This is a
worldwide struggle between and
inside great nations of men. II
is an international war, and IT is
a civil war.
This war will determine whether
the peace of the next epoch is TO
be kept. (a) by checks and bal
ances to power; (b) by improved
collective security-federation and
commonwealth. with freedom and
equality for races and groups oil
men: (cl by world mastery ex-
ercised by one or two organized
groups over all the others.
1t also will, of course. determine
whether the world shall be capt.
talist or Socialist. But it will more
importantly determine what sort
of capitalism, what sort of social
ism, or what sort of synthesis be-
tween the two.
GERMAN "socialism"-national
VI socialism-is Prussian social
ISM" as described by Oswald
Spengler. and il is military So
cialism. 1t conceives of the state
organized as an army and as a
secular religious order II is So
cialism without freedom.
II involves the total subservi-
ence of the individual personality
TO the state. The compensation
to the individual comes through
his being a member Of the master
race. one of the collective top
dogs. and therefore able 10 look
down on the lesser breeds without
the law.
Not only is il socialism
without the concept of individual
freedom, but it is a socialism
without the concept OF equality
either as between persons or as
between races of men. The same
holds true for the japanese state
concept.
The Anglo-Saxon world, and
the historic traditions of all the
North Atlantic states, as well as
Christianity, clash al every point
with this concept and practice.
Therefore, for us. resistance is
inevitable. for there are only two
choices: resistance or capitulation
We cannot Join the Axis. because
we could not accept the thesis
without internal revolution Of a
most disastrous nature in the
face of foreign foes who would
exploit il.
It IS the realization Of the ma
Il ture of the struggle which
makes so many of the words thai
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