The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-03-12
Building A
Peaceful World
(WNU Feattue-Through special arrangemei
with Golfers Weekly
By Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt

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with Golfers Weekly
One of the great lessons we Amer
leans will have to learn if we ever
hope to build a better foundation for
peace is that human beings the
world over have to be approached
as human beings and not as men,
bers of a race or as adherents OF
certain religion-but just as people
whom you may like or dislike ac-
cording to their individual charac-
teristics.
/ may be a Chinese, an Arab, a
Jew, an Indian, a Negro, German,
a Frenchman, or a Britisher-still
I must be evaluated, if am to be
fairly judged, on the basis OF being
just a human being.
We have never done this In the
world beforehand we have never
had peace in the world thus far.
Freedom From Fear.
One of our four freedoms states
that we shall have freedom from
fear" Freedom from fear, OF
course, means that the world over,
people will be protected from ag-
gression, people will be protected
from persecution because of their
race or their religion.
People will be safeguarded from
hunger and want, too, by an econ
omy which takes into consideration
the basic needs of all the people, the
world over.
If that is going to become reali-
ty, then the first thing we have to
do is to learn to meet our fellow
human beings, recognizing the fact
that we will not love all Of them,
but we will love some, and we must
get on with all, regardless of diff
ference of race or creed.
Those who are evil will have
to be restrained. We do that in
our own countries everywhere.
The Chinese philosopher, Lin Yu-
tang, says in substance, in a recent
article, that our moral attitudes the
world over are the important fac
tors, not what we know or what we
have, but our ability to choose be-
tween right and wrong. This may
be the basis on which we shall have
to develop some of our future CO.
operation.
Our boys in Africa and in the Solo
mon Islands deal with natives who
haven't yet had a chance to develop
a very high type of civilization.
These boys are going step beyond
their first contacts in Great Britain
and Australia, and wide differences
will develop, but the beginning of
the development is in Great Britain.
If we can build on the good will
which Great Britain has toward us
at the moment largely brought
about because, in the trials through
which the British have gone, the
generosity of the American people
has made them gratefully we will be
beginning a new era in the world.
Generous, Not Sacrificial.
Over here, it is hard to under
stand just what certain things have
meant to Great Britain, because
while we have given money which
has sent mobile canteens, ambu-
lances, medical supplies, clothing,
food, etc., in great quantities to
Great Britain, we were only being
generous, not sacrifcial.
We have sent old clothes, but they
were things we could do without.
However, the people who received
them over there could not do with
out them.
A woman in London crowd,
for instance, one day plucked at
my sleeve and said, "My little
girl would have been cold If it
had mot been for the warm
clothes the children Of America
sent u.s."
The British people show their
gratitude by wanting to do things
for our American soldiers. They
realize that our coming into the
war is a great help to their own
boys who have fought in all parts
of the world for the past three
years. But their gratitude goes
deeper than that: it touches the
lives of everyone in that group Of
islands.
It calls out a traditional feeling
which ] think is ingrained in the
people of the United States and in
the people of Great Britain-if we
have received something, we want
to make return, at least in good
will.
This is a basis on which believe
we can readily and permanently
build.
Well, to be really effective, the
United Nations win have to build
among the people Of all the nations
an understanding such as is now
growing between the people Of Great
Britain and the people Of the United
States.
It win be slow, but the build
ing Of peaceful world is mot
something to be accomplished
by the writing Of . treaty. It
takes time to work out the rela-
donships Of men and women,
but n we hope for peace, IL must
be done. And I think = good