Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-22
Preparedness
Best Weapon
To Peace
We Cant All Be Happy
Under a Police Force
By PAUL MALLON

Holloman, School Squadron, -
Flight. - Field. Mississippi:
In our search for peace and
Justice in the postwar world.
we are not confronted with
choice between Utopias.
II is not question OF making
a heaven on earth by one means
or another-rather it is a prob
lem of looking at the world as
il is and deciding what we can
do about il. Primarily. we must
confine ourselves in this, as we
do in our daily lives, to consid-
ering what is likely 10 work.
That is why l have objected
to unreStrained idealism of some
of our leaders. l am afraid that
they will erect premature
idealistio state without prac-
tical foundation and then it will
crash, as they all have before,
and all our hopes of peace and
security will be thrown back
another so years.
WHAT is why l distrust the
Il theory you suggest of a
world democratic state or union
of democracies. completely dis
armed and ruled by an inter-
national police force. If you will
analyze it fairly you will see it
cannot work.
China has Asst 900. 900 persons,
which is much more than any
one else and more than three
times our population. In
world democracy such as you
suggest. she would be the big
gest force, the major power, be-
cause she could outvote any
one. Next would be India, with
350,000,000 or more. A major
ity of the population of the
world is in Asia.
A democracy of the world
would turn over to Asia the con-
troll of the world, although our
common sense tells us such an
idea is unthinkable. They do
not even want it or suggest it.
Their people have not come to
the degree of education where
they can rule themselves very
efficiently.
Japan had, and still has, a
democratic Syst tenn, modelled
after Great Britain, with
prime minister, a cabinet and
an elected parliament called the
diet. But that system, we have
found in this war, if we did not
know before, was secretly con-
trolled by an empire clique, and
therefore, it had the effect of a
dictatorship.
Even Hitler only nullified the
power of the Reichstag. did not
abolish it. Moscow dispatches
only today begin to speak of the
Supreme Soviet as a parliament.
You cannot safely risk the
future security of the United
States on the creation alone of
a democracy in Germany or
japan or elsewhere. You must
h ave something more, much
more.
A S TO the international police
"A force and the question of
whether it would work to keep
unruly nations in line, the prac-
teal point for consideration is
who will run the police force.
If some nation other than ours
controls il. we will not be sat-
iSfied. If we control it. other
nations will not be satisfied.
YOU say it will be expensive
Il 10 maintain such a large
American force. Not as expen-
Sive as this war. Not as expen-
slve as Vice President Wallaces
plan TO revise the living ways
and diet OF the world at our ex-
pense.
Not as expensive as any other
plan now being considered to
lend our money after the war
for the industrialization of
China, South America, India so
they can make things we for
merly made for them or could
sell TO them.
You say young men would not
want TO be drafted and would
not want TO volunteer for such
large force. You may think
so now, because pacifism and
impractical treaties before Pearl
Harbor imbued many of our
people with the fallaciouS no.
ton that the defense of their
country was not a sacred duty.
THAT feeling is passing. We
know different now and we
can make that sacred duty an
honorable profession after this
war. We have made the first
and greatest move in that direc-
ton by increasing the soldiers
basic pay scale from $50 TO $50
g month with living and allow
ance for dependents. The $50
a month pay pittance of pacifiSt
/ days discouraged young men
from entering upon arms as a
| profession.
The new army, navy and Air
force will be the best scientific
training ground in the world for
young men, because modern sci
ences now absorb that field. 1t
will be an army of peace and not
OF conquest, devoted TO democ-
racy and not territorial ag-
grandlZement.
/ want all tho same things
! Won want. l think they will