Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
A Lasting Peace

HERBERT HOOVER and Hugh Gibson have coabo-
| rated in writing a comprehensive and fortnight
series of articles for Golfers magazine under the title
Further New Approaches TO Lasting Peace
the title suggests, previous exploration of the sub
ect done last by these eminent authors IN ter
thoughtful and valuable book, Problems of Lasting
Peace
Since then there has been great deal of discussion
of peace and postwar problems very little of 1t compre
hensive or fortnight, thoughtful or valuable
1t is timely therefore for Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson
TO the subject IN order that the discussion may
be restored to constructive and realistic purposes
S THEY stress in this regard there is much in
Apesent thinking about the postwar era that calls
for correction"
Various facile writer's and orators have pic
tured the world after this war as lone world implying
that aerial and radio communications will oblerate ma
tionaism and raeiaism and thus blanket all humanity
under one political and economic roof.
The nuch-traveled but erratc Wendell Wllke is one
of those who has been confused and adding TO the gen
eral confusion.
The equally travelled and erratic Henry Wallace is
another Even President Roosevelt falls more often into
Their weakness as Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson
I'VE it. is the very common weakness for smplflcatlon
CT VERYBODY knows that the world has shrunk in
L terms of communications" Mr. Hoover and Mr.
Gibson agree. o.,..... .,o... ;. :, o,;un
hours than parts of country by train Radio has
made the spread of ideas general and instantaneous
But il il long flying jump from that to the as
sumption that we now have one world in terms OF poi
cal and social philosophical and religious outlook
MANY naiNcN assume that because Asia II now Just
the horizon Occidental and Oriental thought he
standardized Or that they are consumed with desire
10 adopt of life, to have the world built on
American blucprints
IL this is very interesting but il simply isn't true
a We can test all this upon ourselves Are we pre-
pared To adopt Oriental philosophy, religion economic
standards ways of life because can more easily
know their views and their way of living?
THE fact is that the world remains pretty much
il has always been We only foOlng ourselves by try
ing to distort revolution in transport and cOmmunca
tions into a worldwide political and social revolution
Though the skies be darkened with planes and the air
filled with radio propaganda and of good VIII
life will 90 much the same Chinese and Italians Amer
Jeans Arabs and Swedes will remain pretty much what
they
However beguing the thought may he. the world
has not turned into great melting pot And we shall not
achieve lasting peace by starting with the assumption
that we have been transformed into world by radio
and airplanes for if that true should have
problem in making lasting peace
THE sort q mind which emissions the future world
l fashioned after the American pattern simply be-
like and ospousethe pattern "wcakens Ameri-
can Influence ID securing the fundamentals Of peace Mr.
Hoover and Mr Gibson warn.
Realism requires that accept the fact that most
other nations will struggle for the interests o their own
peoples in the peace settlements In most of the world
outside OF the ntcd States IN peace times living for
the masses II hard AT best
U7IiEN will be- further Impoverished by the war. and
L in consequence their national poicc, will OF
slty drive 10 c,er and other ad, antage
they OBTAIN for their people.
wv hat may appear 10 uN selfish appears legitimate
selfinterest to them. WE SHALL ALSO HAVE LEGITI-
MATE SELFINTERESTS TO BIZ DEFENDED"
This IS more than mere realism L is sound Inter
nationalsm And best q all. il is good AMERICANISM
Mr. Hoover andMr Gibson % bc commended for Civ.
rg Offset 10 the distortions Of viewpoint and out
look too common IN current thinking.