The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-12

Whatever SaLlSldCllOn lne deI-
mans may take from knowing that
their flying bombs are causing
much damage and many deaths,
the fact is that this new weapon
is a boomerang. In its present
state of development, it is not de-
structive enough to alter the course
o. the war and to save the Ger
man armies from crushing defeat;
yet it is sufficiently ominous in its
future possibilities to put an end
to all doubt and scruple among
the Allied peoples that Germany
must not only be disarmed and
demilitarized but reduced from her
position as the strongest power of
continental Europe.
! The Germans are teaching h e
people of England, of France, of
Poland, of Russia, and of the Unit
ed States that they cannot feel Sc
cure because they have at last
achieved enough military superior
ity to win the war. These flying
bombs are the prototypes of the
weapons of the next war, as were
the bomber ana the tank in the
other war, though they made their
appearance too late to play a de-
Gliding part.
The new bombardment of Lon
don is sharp and opportune re-
hinder that our present weapons
may soon be as obsolete as the
Maginot line, and that if we want
security in the coming generations
we must not only achieve victory
but we must use it radically.
Desirable and necessary as it is
to establish general society of
peace, we shall be deceiving our
selves if we allow ourselves to
think that this can be a substi-
tute for firm and concrete under
takings among the Allies and a
deep and drastic settlement with
pan Germanism and German mil
itarism. The coming peace must
be founded not upon generalities
end distractions but first of all,
for the period of the German pro-
baton, upon specific military and
political agreements among the
particular nations most intimately
concerned-that is to say, Great
Britain, France, the Low Coun-
tries, the United States and Cana
da on the west of Germany, the
Soviet Union, Poland and Czecho-
slovakia to the east. These agree
nlents must cement the relations of
tfese groups of states among
Themselves, and with one another
in what Governor Dewey has call
ed durable cohesion, and they
must be focused upon the definite
objective of dealing finally with
pan-Germanism.
Upon that foundation, and only
if it is made solid and dependable,
can general society of all the
nations be established to promote
peaceable intercourse everywhere.
For against the weapons of which
the flying bomb is prototype
there is no ultimate defence ex-
cept radical pacification by Unit
ed action.
It is easy to say, but it is not
true, that the Allies of today may
be the enemies of tomorrow, and
that therefore there can be no def
mite settlement of the series of Ger
man wars. Our present alliance
against Germany is no temporary
contraption: it is an alignment of
nations which, despite many dis
putes, much suspicion, and even
short and local wars like the Cri-
mean, have for more than a cen
fury beer natural Allies.
1t is not coincidence that Brit
Gin and Russia have found them
selves allied against Bonaparte,
against the Kaiser, and against
Hitler; that France n d Britain
have been allied ever since the
Use of German imperial aggres-
sion; that the United States and
Russia, under the cars and under
the Soviets, have always in vital
matters been on the same side;
that for more than 100 years Brit
ain and America have in the end
always found that against the NOR
tai enemy of either they would
support one another, and h t
France which did 90 much to lib
crate America, has twice in her
mortal peril found us at last be-
side her.
Those who say that this coalition
is merely another transient alli-
ance are failing to see how much