Evening star., 1941-07-23
Harris & Ewing Photo.

existence in the rest of the world OF
equally peaceminded and equally
secure peoples who not only will
not. but cannot. became source of
potential danger to us in the New
World.
feel 1t is not premature for me
to suggest that the free govern
ments of peace loving nations every
where should even now be consider
ing and discussing the way in which
they can best prepare for the better
day which must come. when the
present contest is ended in the vic
tory of the forces OF liberty and of
human freedom, and in the crushing
defeat of those who are sacrificing
mankind to their own lust for power
and for loot.
At the end of the last war.
great President of the United States
gave his life in the struggle to
further the realiza ton Of the splen-
did vision which he had held up to
the eyes of suffering humanity
the vision of an ordered world gov
erned by law.
The League of Nations. as he con-
ceived it. failed in part because
of the blind selfshness of men here
in the United States, as well as
in other parts of the world; it
failed because Of its utiliZatio by
certain powers primarily to advance
their own political and commercial
ambitions; but it failed chiefly be-
cause Of the fact that it was forced
to operate. by those who dominated
its councils. as means of MAIN
tanning the status quo. 1t was never
enabled to operate as its chief
spokesman had intended. as an
elastic and impartial instrument in
bringing about peaceful and equit-
able adjustments between nations
as time and circumstances proved
necessary.
Some adequate instrumentality
must unquestionably be found to
achieve such adjustments when the
nations of the earth again under
take the task of restoring law and
order to a disastrously shaken
world.
But whatever the mechanism
which may be devised. of two things
I am unalterably convinced:
First, that the abolition Of Of
fensive ornaments and the limita-
ton and reduction of defensive
armaments and of the tools which
make the construction of such arma-
ments possible, can only be under
taken through some rigid form of
! international supervision and con-
troll. and that without such prac-
tical and essential control. no real
disarmament can ever be achieved;
and
Natural Rights Essential.
Second. that no peace which may
be made in the future would be valid
or lasting unless it established fully
and adequately the natural rights
of all peoples to equal economic en-
joyment. So long as any one people
or any one government possesses a
monopoly over natural resources or
raw materials which are needed by
all peoples. there can be no basis
! for a world order based on justice
and on peace.
| l cannot believe that peoples OF
good will will not once more strive
to realize the great ideal of an asso-
! citation of nations through which
the freedom, the happiness and the
security of all peoples may be
achieved
That word, security, represents the
end upon which the hearts of men
and women everywhere today are
| set.
Whether it be security from bomb
ing from the air. or from mass de-
struction; whether it be security
from want. disease and starvation;
whether it be security in enjoying
that inalienable right which every
human being should possess of living
out his life in peace and happiness,
people throughout the length and
breadth of the world are demanding
security. and freedom from fear.
That is the objective before us all
today-to try and find the means Of
bringing that to pass.
Not in vain the distance bea-
cons