Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-03-12
Building A
Peaceful World
BY Mrs. Franklin ID. Roosevelt

One of the great lessons we
Americans will have to learn if
we ever hope to build better
foundation for peace is that hu-
man beings the world over have
to be approached as human beings
and not as members of a race or
as adherents of a certain religion
but just as people whom you
may like or dislike according to
their individual characteristics.
l may be a Chinese, an Arab, a
Jew, an Indian, a Negro, a Ger
man, Frenchman or a Britisher
still l must be evaluated, If |
am to be fairly judged, on the
basis of being just 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
0my which takes into consideration
the basic needs of all the people,
the world over.
If that is going to become a
eality, then the first thing we
! ave 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, regard
less of difference 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 recent
article, that our moral attitudes
the world over are the important
factors, not what we know or what
we have, but our ability to choose
between right and wrong. This may
be the basis on which we shall
have to develop some of our future
cooperation.
Our boys in Africa and in the
Solomon Islands deal with natives
who haven't yet had a chance to
develop very high type of civili-
zation. These boys are going a
step, beyond their first contacts
in Great Britain and Australia,
and wide differences will develop,
but the beginning of the develop
ment 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 peo-
pie has made them gratefuD we
will be beginning a new era in the
world.
Generous, Not SacrificiaI
Over here, it is hard to under
stand just what certain things
have meant to Great Britain, be-
cause while we have given money
which has sent mobile canteens,
ambulances, m e d al supplies,
clothing, food, ETC., in great guam
titles to Great Britain, we were
only being generous, not sacrifi-
cial.
We have sent old clothes, but
they were things we could do with
out. However, the people who re-
ceived them over there could not
do without them.
A woman in a London crowd.
for instance, one day pIucked at
my sleeve and said, "My little
girl would have been cold if it
had not 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 great help to their own
boys who have fought in all parts