The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-12-30

| Well, the talk about negotiated peace
has got started. 1t was bound to come
along, just as it did in that other war.
An organized movement is under
way to prevent knocking Germany out
of the war; to promote get-togethef
to talk some kind of peace into being.
Some of this talk - some of these
takers perhaps has the character
iStics of honest conviction.
But some of the promoters and some
of the promotion has the definite color
of propaganda by friends of and per-
hapS agents of the NaZi horror.
The primary argument, now as then,
is the saving of life.
And there could be no better time
of year than this Christmas holiday
time for the launching of a propa-
ganda that talks about saving lives.
AS nation we have always been
good at talking about life-Saving and
proflgate in expenditure of life
In the last world war England de-
veloped a great movement for nego-
tiated peace just as the United States
was entering the war
Delegates from allied European ma
tons went to the famous StackhOlm
conference (SOme American labor men
will remember about it) to promote
negotiated peace.
One of two of Engands best known
labor leaders We're engaged in that
propaganda and went to that confer
ence.
American labor stood against it,
fought it and helped nightly to hold
the line against it.
The argument then was much the
same as now Exhaustion made for
willing listeners but fortunately it
didn't make for enough for them, al
though it did make for an almost
dangerously large number.
The current campaign will make
some converts, but it will not make
enough of them. If it could, then the
war would be lost.
Any peace that allowed continued
existence for the Nazi regime, or for
the junllers militarist clique, would be
recess, not q peace as the world
wants peace this time.
1t is true that more lives will be
sacrificed in carrying on to a knock
out
But the lives yet to be given are no
more precious than the lives that have
been given.
The lives that have been given were
given for the sake of victory and a
PERMANENT PEACE.
If it could mean saving lives to
shorten the war, it also would mean
utter and shameless betrayal of those
who have given their lives.
Who has the right to so betray those
who have made the sacrifice?
WHO has that right?
Think that over, please
Mostly the current propaganda is
fostered by those who have been known
for their opposition to the war from
the tirSt-from the iSOlatiOniStS and/or
the pro-Nazis.
This is merely a turn to a new
strategy in their efforts to hurt the
United Nations and help Germany.
There is no longer an Axis it is
Nazi Germany alone that they seek to
help.
There is no longer an axis because
Italy is out of it, the Balkan nations
are shattered and more of Il liability
than an asset; and Japan is fighting
her own war for her own purposes.
Beware this propaganda for nego-
tiated peace And don't be fooled by
the political caperings of certain MEM
berS of Congress, including those who
would rather win their own seats than
help win the war.
Now, if ever, we need unity of pur-
pose, unity of determination, unity of
thinking. And those do not keep COM
pany with defeatism, with petty ambi-
tions. or with our common enemy -
CMW.