The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-23
. Clapper
More Than MIlIfsry Might
Needed 10 Battle Foes
Spirit That Never Says
Die Aetusies Reds. Ns1is
Flame OF Faith Must Burn
As riereeIy AS Any Enemies
Nv RAYMOND CLaPPER


Nv RAYMOND CLAfFER
WASHINGTON the battle
n stalngrsd tells US anything, il
3 that something more than mill
,srv might has gone into this bat
he from both sides. II Is a battle
n tanks and guns and planes. But
Il IS more. II Is a battle Of hu-
man beings. each possessed by an
determination TO win.
Only that will could keep the
Nazi troops charging again and
again. Only that will could keep
the Soviet soldiers fighting relent-
lessly against superior advancing
numbers.
The battle of Stalingrad Illus
trates what Lord Halifax, the
British ambassador. said in
weekend broadcast. He said that
neither a persistent and relentless
offensive. necessary though II is,
nor the solution of problems OF
supply. vital as they are, will by
themselves win the victory He
mentioned that behind the formid-
able mass Of Nszi material lies the
still more formidable fact of Nazi
fanaticism. Every first-hand re-
mort from the southwest Pacific
underlines as 10 the Japs what
Lord Halifax says about the
Nazis.
So Lord Halifax goes on to say:
We know the Nazi cause 10 be
most evil. but they have been
trained to believe that it has the
highest claim on their devotion.
SO when We have out-gunned, out
tanked and out-planed the Nazis,
we must see TO it always that the
flame Of our faith burns as fierce
" as theirs"
| am not sure that we have
LilHi Yet On 'hA rlb's We Aoih ~
good deal about IT, Still ] wonder
when l see quibbling going on
here. and when we delay by
months to deal with problems like
rubber and steel and industrial
manpower that we know are in
escapable.
Perhaps a good deal of IL traces
to lack of inner feeling that win
ming this war is the path TO bring
ing about the kind of world we
want afterwards. The Nazis are
fighting this war to get the kind
of world they want-a slave world
over which they shall be masters.
They are fighting not just for VIC
tory hut because they have a
burning hunger for what they be-
lisve victory will bring to them.
They think IT will bring all that
Germany has been denied in cen
turies past. The have not" is 60
ing 10 bresR the window and get
what ne wants.
Does any such compulsion drive
US on?
Lord Halifax believes the Brit
ish have il. He says that although
people in England know they are
fighting for their lives, they do
not see the war simply as one Of
self-preservation. Although we
are determined to rid Europe Of
Hitler and all his works" he says,
we certainly are not so foolish
as to suppose that the world az
ter tho war will he the same world
as II was before it During
these last three years the British
people have learned much IN a
hard and bitter school
What We have learned together
has brought us a new humility.
which We needed. We acknowl-
edged that in the past we have
tolerated much of which we are
now ashamed We are resolved
never again TO lose that new sense
Of values which we have won
through the war. We shall up
hold these at whatever cost. so
that We may build a future in
which they shall raise and rule
the lives Of men"
Such ideas as those must move
men. in the war IN the East, par
ucularly. we have seen how PeO-
pies offered no resistance to the
Jap invader because they saw
nothing involved worth struggling
for. Are we going To see that
dismal history Of defeat repeated
in India We saw the people Of
Russia fight and save Moscow.
They felt il was their Moscow.
They fight in the same way 10
hold Staingrsd because it IS their
Stalingrad.
But do the people Of india. with
their most popular leaders in Jail,
{ with no attempt IN sight 10 bring
bout an adjustment between
. themselves and the British. feel
that Calcutta IS theirs When
was there. British and Americans
! who had been on the scene were
! fearful that Il the Jsps. then up
, n the Bay Of Bengal. landed. con
siderable elements ~ the populs-
! ton would welcome them with
. open arms. biindly and mistaken
p " thinking the Jsps would VIII
= them their freedom.
There. too. evidently is case
where military force would be
strengthened By faith that burns
as fiercely as that On the other
SIDE.