Evening star., 1941-09-19
Order Effected by Free Democratic Nations,
Not That Won by Chaotic Revolt, Recommended

tic Revolt, Recommended
tionist Senators of Mr.. Hoover's
own party.
Lost Peace by Withdrawal.
We lost the peace, Mr.. Hoover,
because we withdrew from it, re-
fusing to take any responsibility
for the future of the world. If a
nation refuses to take the re-
sponSibilities that its influence
and power has put into its hands,
it cannot expect others to carry
out its aims.
And left out of account, as a
direct contributing cause to the
chaos of Europe, is the economic
policy pursued from Harding to
Mr. Hoover himself.
Emerging from the last war as
the leading creditor Nation of the
world, with a choice of keeping
the debts and stimulating freer
trade, or of abolishing the debts
and keeping a protected market,
We actually. under three Repub-
lican administrations, insisted on
the debts. raised the tariff, and
forced up our own exports by
vast new private loans to an al
ready indebted Europe.
The result of this policy was to
bankrupt Europe and plunge our
selves with it into an unpre-
cedented panic 1t was that
panic that gave Germany Adolf
Hitler-and gave America Mr..
Roosevelt.
Rest of Analogy.
Historical analogies are dam
gerous, especially if the story is
only half told. Mr. Hoover re-
minds us that a certain journal
ist, Fisher Ames. was a war
monger" during the Napoleonic
wars, urging us to join Britain,
and saying, Let no man be de-
ceived; if Bonaparte prevails. we
shall be his vaSsals -. We shall
be reduced to slavery"
Mr.. Hoover omits to mention
that the head of the pro-BritlSh
party in America at that time
was not a journalist but the
leader of his own party, Alex
ander Hamilton; that Thomas
jefferson, who refused to take
up arms with Britain agains5
Napoleon did not keep us out Of
war, but got us into war against
Britain; that Washington was
invaded and burned; that We
had to pull out of that war with
a compromise peace. and that
Britain and Russia did lick
Napoleon.
The peace treaty made after
the defeat of Napoleon was not
much to our liking. But we were
considerably farther from Europe
then than now, and we're not a
great power whose every action
or lack of action has repercus-
sions on the whole world. Yet.
even then we were involved in
that war-on the wrong side.
The Brave Win Victories.
The Monroe Doctrine that Mr..
Hoover supports came to us
through the assistance and col
laboration of Great Britain. Had
Napoleon won, We wouldn't have
had it. If Hitler wins this one,
We won't have it, either-unless,
as Senator D. Worth Clark sug-
gested, we start out to make
revolutions to our liking in all
the Latin-American republics,
or, as Mr. Lindbergh suggests,
dictate by threat of force to
Canada and Mexico.
That would be rather more
difficult than helping Britain
win this war, and restoring to
Europe that order, freedom and
legitimate government. which is
indigenous to all of western
civilization, and is not, normally
speaking, monopoly of the
United States.
Neither prosperity, victory nor
peace are ever around the corner
for those who wait to see what
will turn up. What turns up is
depression. defeat and chaos.
Prosperity is maintained by wise
policies. Victory is won by brave
men. Peace Is made by the wise
and the just and the constructive.
And none of the three is ever
won and made forever.
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