The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-09-23

Now that we are well along the road
| to victory in Europe there is great TO-
do about what kind of a peace we shall
| try to bring about.
Walter Lippmann has written
most interesting book on our foreign
policy, or lack thereof and the Re
publicans have held a meeting on an
island, in an effort to write down some
thing that will stand as policy.
Secretary Hull has taken to the air
to offer us his Interpretation.
What we shall get probably will be
like none of the programs yet offered,
because when we get right down to it
compromise will modify everything
now in mind.
| In the making of the peace what the
United States wants will be modified
by what is wanted by England, Russia
and China and you can lay bet that
what some of these nations want will
be long, long way from what we
want.
Some of our present authorities seem
to string along with the alliance idea,
while others go for something like a
League of Nations.
Practically everyone agrees that we
must have some kind of international
agreement, so that another war may
not blossom on the ruins of this one.
That any international agreement is
bound to cost US something seems so
evident that it shouldn't need to be
stated. But not all understand that and
when they are confronted with the
price they balk and talk about safe
guarding OUR sovereignty and our
| freedom of action.
| Every kind of organized law and
| order costs somebody something ana
restricts somebody's freedom to do
what he pleases. Order is never free.
Safety is never free Freedom is never
without it's cost.
Let us not be so silly as to think that
we can get all the rest Of the world to
pay while we merely ride along on a
glorified sightseeing trip in a safe and
democratic world while other nations
pay the freight.
What a great many persons who are
joining the debate fail to appreciate
is the fact that peace treaties already
are being discussed and actually enter
ed into.
We are right now in the process of
working out draft agreements that
settle some things and they will not
need or get the advice and consent"
of the Senate.
These preliminary agreements will
settle a great many things and they
will probably, in some degree, modify
the final treaties, by reason of the fact
that they will confront the plenipOten-
tiarieS with a series of fait accOmpli,
or things already done.
A few cellar doors are getting nailed
down right now. That, perhaps, is a
good thing, for it creates order as We
go.
And for another thing, doesn't it
seem likely that the military govern
ments set up in, for example, Sicily
North Africa and continental Italy,
will to some degree create a pattern
that will affect the final choice of
these people when and if they ever get
the chance to vote on what kind of
government they want?
1t is we'll to think of these issues
that must arise us victory comes
nearer. 6
We have not been accustomed to
thinking overly much about foreign
policy.
We have liked to think of letting the
rest of the world alone and demand
ing that it let us alone.
But the day of national or CONT
mental isolation is gone forever. The
Wright brothers sewed the seed for
that at Kitty Hawk and that seed has
come to full flower.
While we think and make up our
minds on the pattern for the peace we
must not let up one iota in our efforts
to win the war<as speedily as possible.
The rules of war still must govern our
lives. We must keep our backs bent
to the burden of production and Of
everything that goes to make up the
enormous load we shall have to carry
until the last shot has been fired.
Today's job is still the job of WAR
and there can be no let-dOwn. We must
think and plan for tomorrow, but we
must do it 'on the run. We can't STOP
to think.-CMW.