Evening star., 1943-07-01
Bloom, Eaton Warn
On 'Fumb|ing' Peace
In Forum Addresses

Fumbling of the peace would be
as disastrous as defeat in the war
Chairman Sol Bloom of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee and Rep
resentative Eaton of New Jersey
ranking Republican member, agreed
last night in the National Radio
Forum.
Both Representatives spoke in
favor of the Fulbright resolution to
maintain just and lasting peace
which was adopted unanimously re-
Gently by the House committee.
The National Radio Forum Is a
Blue Network feature arranged by
The Star and broadcast locally over
Station WMAL.
The F0lbright resolution states:
Resolved, by the House of Repre-
sentatives (the Senate concurring)
That the Congress hereby express
itself as favoring the creation of
appropriate international machinery
with power adequate to establish
and to maintain just and lasting
peace, among the nations of the
world and as favoring participation
by the United States therein"
Demands U. S. Cooperate.
Declaring that this country must
cooperate for a lasting peace as
it is now co-operates for victory in
the war, Representative Bloom said:
If we are willing to shed our
blood and pour out the Nation S
wealth to achieve a just peace, we
certainly are willing to cooperate
with other free peoples to make it
a lasting peace. We are not fighting
for a 25-year peace. no matter how
lust it might be- We do not intend
to have our boys killed in another
war. For that reason we are strik-
ing down everybody who started
this war, and we intend to hold
down powerless anybody who might
start another war.
But we must also destroy the
termites who undermine peace. The
most pestilent evil that afflicts man.
kind, next to war, is treaCherouS
peace. counterfeit peace that
cheats you into sense OF security
and then betrays you to the enemy.
That was the peace the world haG
after the last war. Never again!
we say. Against traltorous war and
traitorous peace we stand with other
free nations and say, Never again.
Representative Eaton said that
failure by Congress and the country
to participate with the other free
peoples in establishing a lasting
peace would be the ''acme of po-
litical folly and moral madness
IF such an irrational and immoral
abandonment of our present place
of recognized leadership and respon-
sibility among the nations of the
world were even conceivable he
said. why should We continue to lay
upon present and future generations
of Americans a burden of public
debt unparalleled in history? Why
continue our almost miraculous pro-
ductlon of war materiel? Why keep
on aiding our Allies, without stint,
through lease-lend and other gov
ermental agencies?
Cites Unanimous Vote.
"Whv send the flower of young
manhood to the four corners of the
earth to face wounds and death on
land and sea and in the air? Why
permit millions of our American
homes to become enshrouded in the
bleak and somber shadows of per-
sonal uncerta; ;nty, sacrifice and sor-
row?"
Pointing out that the Fulbright
resolution was passed unanimously,
Mr.. Bloom said this was evidence
that persons of every political con-
viction long for just and lasting
peace"
why should this resolution be
adopted now?" Mr.. Bloom asked.
Because the world ought to know
that the United States means never
again when it deals the blows that
are putting an end to this war.
Friends and enemies must be as
sured that this is the last world War.
The United Nations will fight better
If they realize that the coming peace
will be lasting as well as just"
He stressed that the resolution is
mot a commitment in support of
any particular peace plan or treaty"
The United States he said, al
ways free, remains free to pass
Judgment upon any plan to achieve
world peace. We declare that what
We are doing in the field we are
willing to do in council"
Sees Allies Doubtful.
Representative Eaton stressed that
an urgent reason" why the resolu-
ton should be adopted is the grow
ing uncertainty among our fighting
Allies as to the participation Of our
Government and people in setting up
the peace
Unless this uncertainty" he said,