The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-31
Observations
Peace Planners
Staging Fight
Between Selves

There il one thing 10 be said
for isolationists, anyway They
exress themselves in a fashion
that can be clearly understood
Planners for postwar peace on
into eternity have so many diff
ferent schemes FOR guaranteeing
II that they do not make sense.
A perfect Babel OF them broke
out in Washington directly fol
lowing Winston Churchill's broad
cast OF his program il it was CO.
herent enough 10 be called a pro
gram.
II is complete waste OF Time
10 listen to congressional gable
ever since Churchill emitted that
talk In fact, il is worse than a
waste. for the listener. poking into
one OF the chambers in the eXpec-
tation OF a bit OF enlightenment,
resently emerges in state OF
mental confusion that he proba bly,
will not recover from before the
outbreak OF the next world CON
fliCt.
The gibberish is not between
isolationists and advocates Of
some sort OF an internal fedora
ton 10 insure future peace for
ever after the Axis powers have
been defeated
1t il between conflicting groups
OF the peace folk themselves. T.
Is not quite correct TO speak OF
them even as groups. They do
not split mp as collectively as
that. They classify as indiyid-
uals. each. Believe me, they do
not agree among themselves.
The isolstionists do classify az
a group Or perhaps ! should
refer TO them as eK-isolationists.
Nobody admits that he ia an $50
Istionist. now that the war is
on. II was not very popular 10
he so called isolstionist before
hand. either. The early inter
ventionists were fairly success
full al stigmatising their opposl-
ton upon sntipatrlotic grounds.
With Uncle Sans entrance
into the strife. naturally all $50
lalion sentiment eyaporated i'm
medistely. for current purposes
II still fingers. however, as a
confederation COZ ~ed with
postwar preparations OF today.
and IL certainly will break out
sfresb directly following the
United Nations victory.
Anyway. the former and now In
cipient isolationists do not make
much OF a point OF their isolation
ism as OF the moment. They stick
together and really constitute an
actual group, but they do not
say much about II. fearing 10 be
suspected OF lukewarmth toward
Yankee war activity.
On a congregational scale. the
situation Is curiously and rldicu-
lously reminiscent OF the one that
prevailed on the Ford peace eH-
petition. during World War Is
early days.
Ford organized his party with
100 per cent purposes, as every
body was aware. 1t was a whole
big shipload OF pacifists OF the
most pronounced type-soms OF
them pretty prominent.
Candidly. many were a bit
cranky. Having been on the list,
/ can say so. For. the truth is,
personally | was not overly en-
thusiastic for that particular war
When we got into It. being rather
past military age. ! took a civil
ian's hand. but at the outset |
rated as an isolstionist. ] guess.
Yet there were a few OF us
who were not "peacers as We
named the sure-enou9h fanatics
on the Ford cruise. Perhops We
we're a dozen or Is in number. as
compared with ''pescers' running
up into the hundreds. Mostly We
we're newspapermen.
Elmer Davis. our present owl
director, was included. g. Q.
Mcclure, the magazine man. was
one OF Us. SO was Emil Hurjs,
prominent among todays Wash
ingtonian Finns. In short. we
were middling aggressive
bunch. though small.
Well. before We were outside
OF Sandy Hook. those "peacerS'
fell 10 quarrelling among them
selves.
They all wanted peace but they
wanted II in different ways
We isolslionists. though. were
harmonious within our own ranks.
The "peacers'' hatred were
between themselves. We isols.
tionists got along among our
selves o. X. The paciiists could
not. on their side.
II 10 40 now.