Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-14

Part Ill
7 CONCLUDE these observations by
l reaffrmng the view that we should
not send our sons TO battle nor spend our
great resources IN aid OF other nations
who are fighting the common enemy with
out having definite war detectives, and war
policies of our own.
We should not blindly follow the
policies of other nations whose warfare we
are abetting without an understanding of
their detectives.
If these detectives are inconsistent
with our own national interest or If we
believe that they are damaging to the
moral principles which We purpose to see
re-esta blshed in the world, We should
frankly state our objections and we should
put proper pressure on the nations with
which we are associated, to have them
base their own objections on principles
which we can approve.
MO SENSIBLE nation puts its full
i strength into war to win victory
and have the terms of peace framed TO its
own disadvantage or steePcd IN iniqulty.
We are not fighting for our own
aggression, for the appropriation of the
homes and territory of other peoples who
are our friends, and We should not permit
these TO be the detectives Of associated
nations whom we wish to aid,
believe the American people gener-
ally, and particularly in this war have no
desire to initiate the methods of European
statescraft
The international politics of Europe
rest upon infirm and deplorable foun-
datons.
It's practice is to profess friendship
and promise loyalty from one people to
another and a little later declare that
people an enemy.
II concludes treaties and then brazenly
defes these treaties. 1t pledges the word
of public authority and does not keep this
word
1t pretends to cultivate friendship and
then betrays the friend. 1t constantly
seeks to dissimulate the real facts of
political situation or conceal them by
smoke-screen of dishonest propaganda.
A S A people, we have little taste for
a these tactics. We do not wish to
initiate them We do not desire to be
associated with them. We want our inter-
national friendships to be constant. We
want to make our own word good.
We want to- keep our engagements
and encourage other peoples, great and
small, to repose confidence in what We
pledge. If we cannot adhere to this line
of action in this war, we will lose the best
fruits of this war.
There is certain timidty rife among
us-a timdity that fears to express dis
approval lest the cohesion, between our
selves and other nations engaged in a
common war, be impaired.
There is a propaganda current among
us which desires to stamp one who is a
critic of our own policy, or of the policy
of an associated nation. as an abettor of
Hitler and, whether conscious Of it or not
an ally of the enemy.
Now let US brush all this purile reason
ing aside. 1t deserves to be ignored. Let
US not be afraid Of searching for the truth
and stating it, if we can find it for in war,
no less than in peace there is no refuge
but in truth.
WYE ARE confronted at the moment by
w grave rift between Russia and the
representatives of the Polish nation. and
between Russia and the representatives Of
small nations which Russia very clearly
intends to reabsorb
These nations have been independent
countries for 20 years Their Independence
was provided for in the treaties of peace
The treaties Of peace are a part of the
public law Of Europe.
They were considered not only TO be
legal but morally binding until they we're
denounced and violated. by Adolf Hitler.
His ruthless action is the basis of this
war. Victory for US in this war means