The Wilmington morning star., 1942-05-03
Fair Enough
VESTbRNjK PE6LER

with great brotherhood of peo.
pies under rule of justice TO h,
enforced, Of course, by us and onr
partners in the role of n>iTtaM,
victors and I would like to throw
in my opinion that they are eithe,
crazy or just being politicians II
our side wins the war, Russia will
plan the peace of the Euronear
continent, and on the basis Of 81
Russia's past performances we can
confidently assume that in Gov
many it will be a peace not mnch
different from that which Hitler
has imposed on Poland. Russ,a
will not be asking our advice or
permission any more than she :
consulting us now in the condnct
of the war and our own peonIo
will pick up their marbles and
come on home to be more nation.I
istic than ever, but very militaris.
tic, too.
AS a nation, we simply aren't
inclined to world brotherhood W.
are strictly loners as we demon.
strated after the last war when
we turned our backs on Eurona
and Woodrow Wilson. Notwith.
standing whatever it was that Mrs
Roosevelt said about what tbo
American fighting men did when
the other war was over, it was The
whole American people who re.
nounced Europe. The American
Legion had very little influence ex.
cept in lobbying up pensions and
the bonus and annoying people with
riotous goings-on at the national
conventions.
The people were fed up on "Et;,
ropes endless wars" as the
phrase went, but made the mis-.
take of rejecting Wilson'S alterna.
tive stated over and over in his
dying effort to swing US into his
dream league. The alternative was
that we must become a nation in
arms with more or less universal
compulsory military service. We
turned down his league because
we felt sure that we always would
be running to a hen-house fire in
the Balkans with a leaky hose and
celluloid ladder, but we also cot
plastered on jake and jumpsteady
and, as drunks will, thought we
could lick any half-dozen you.
know-whats in the house with no
!; more training than a haircut and
a shave.
. In all this time our nationalism
, hasn't diminished a tenth of de-
, gree, but we surely have discoy.
cred in the last couple of years
that we can learn to shoot and
march and fly as well as anyone
else when We put our mind 10 it
and think we are going to enjoy
| the feel of being tough so much
that we will keep in training in.
definitely, with plenty of divisions,
planes, ships and war industry.
Furthermore, we will have to
wins that means Russia wins and
keep tough because if our side
there is a nation with no friends,
:, brothers or confidanrs, myster.
Gus, mighty giant who will be Shov.
:, ing communism all over the place
a If we can learn to be as single.
: minded and selfish as Russia about
, our own national safety we will do
q very well and we certainly should
try to learn to keep our secrets
about inventions, methods, sup
9 plies, capacities and so forth be-
cause Russia and Germany did
. that while we were showing of
! our toys with the vain, silly pride
!, of little kids.
One of our high aviation off,
!. GERS was saying recently that when
: those Russians flew over to drop
in on us a few years ago and we
showed them all our stuff, whlh
wasn't much in bulk but rather
special, one of the Russian OFF,
: GERS said he just couldn't under.
l stand why we did this. He sad
we showed him things that he
didn't even ask to see, whereas
in Russia, they never showed Us
anything and our people kne" "
would be useless to ask.
Russia, like Germany, has ru9'
ber boundaries which stretch ana
contract, and wherever they
stretch to, there communism 1S'
, I just don't believe our people ever
will 60 for communism or collaoo.
rate sincerely in postwar WORD
arrangement in which one OF INV
dominant powers is communism !
Moreover, collaboration has got u
be reciprocal and we won't os
willing to 90 on furnishing all lhe
4 reciprocity while Russia JUS
grunts.
You may say this is very soP
did and pessimistic writing and ho
: an alternative plan. Of course n
is no plan, but no plan is at leaS,
as good as any plan which ca!'
; on us to share world reSponSl0n'
ty with nation which shares nou
ing but her troubles with anyoou" .
The situation permits Of no pIalI
ming. The immediate business D
to lick Germany, which haVHS
been done, Japan will be ppsD.
over. The future will have 10 W
managed as it happens and u'
stronger we remain when the wa.
is over the better we will mana5.
it from the standpoint of the VI.
country that should matter
Americans of the U. S. A. r
Did you ever hear of any na""s,
wanting to protect us?
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