Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-20
Lastine Peace Problems

cant place in the literature of these critical years.
Both write with authority international affairs.
Mr. Hoovers background of intimacy with world
events well known and amply rounded out before
he became president and in respects it more
responsible for his authoritative stature than his presi
Dental which proved to be Illustration for him
and thus somewhat the downside of his experience
Mr. Gibson's vantage point attained in the dipo-
matte service which he entered in 1905 and where he
remained until 1888 the of which time he
minister to Poland and Switzerland and Amer
can ambassador to Belgium and Brazil
WHILE their combined experiences do not in them
w selves constitute a guaranty of good book-inept
writing and observation and conclusions being often the
products of intimacy with historythey create attitude
of respect and expectancy
Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson not inept in their
observations and conclusions, in their writing.
They have not solved the problems of lasting peace,
or pretended to do So
They have in fact STAYED we'll within the scope of
discussion implied by the title of their book being
cerned with statement and exposition of problems
rather than their solution.
The purpose of their work, and its merit, in
analysis and definition of the constantly gathering expo
sve forces which have precpitaed in the last 140
years and of the opposing forces which sought to aay
and abate explosions in the intervals of peace.
THE whole question of lasting peace is inter-
i mngng of encouragement and hope.
There has never been permanent peace, as the fact
Of the world now being at attests,
But after every great there is always oppor-
unty for contrving peace that will last, and there is
always striving for it. and always sincere hope for it.
These are the things Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Gibson have
assembled in their book-the of and the
ditions of peace
In the case of war, it is simple of accurate
reporting.
In the case of peace it is as if all the ingredients
known and available but awaiting and eluding
formula.
This latest of the worlds wars is of the most
terrible of all but in little else is it essentially diff
ferent from other wars.
WE all recognize, it stems from and in fact is a
a continuation of the first world which resulted
when powerful criminal and ruthless nations resorted to
force achieve their ambitions and ended when other
nations combined to thwart them
There was better than the usual chance to make
lasting peace then The worlds peoples sick
of than usual The defeated nations thor
oughly beaten than usual The victor nations more ear
nestly desired permanent peace than usual
But everything else was as usual in conformance
with historic experience
The defeated nations accepted the enforced peace
with humiliation and with urgings of fear, hate and
revenge
peace what each desired, all less going their
separate ways according to their desires and interests
and thus dssovng the partnership by which victory had
been achieved
livery peace table in history has had the expert
Il ence the defeated nations suen in their humiliation
and hurt pride nursing their hates and bdng their time
the victor nations exactng their deserved compensations
and excessive spoils we'll and then going their
divergent ways
Is this war to bring a similar experience?
All past history of mankind suggests affirmative
answer
But all the yearning of mankind pleads for different
We all know what we want to accomplish in this
We want first of all to completely defeat and
ruthlessly crush enemies, and that will be done.
Beyond that we want peace that will last and not
be spent the gathering of explosive forces and
eliminate in new and more horrible
Can that be done?
Yes, it can be done. 1t has been done before
but it will be done in time.
Will it be done now?
Nobody knows Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Gibson certainly
do not profess to know
DUT we will surely try. The book which Mr. Hoover and
- Mr. Gibson have written part of the effort The
nearly two federal agencies and the than 200
other organizations which at work in the
United States plans for future peace parts the
effort Every instinct OF all people and of humanity