Evening star., 1944-06-29

petent government? We have
not heard that claim made, even
by its most fanatical supporters.
No. all they tell us is that in its
young days it did some good
things. That we freely grant.
But now it has grown old in
Office. 1t has become tired and
quarrelsome. It seems that the
great men who founded this Ma
ton really knew what they were
talking about when they said
that three terms were too many.
When we have won the war,
we shall still have to win the
peace. We are agreed, all of us,
that America will participate
with other sovereign nations in
a cooperative effort to prevent
future wars. Let us face up
boldly to the magnitude of that
task. We shall not make secure
the peace of the world by mere
words. We cannot do it simply
by drawing up a fine-sounding
treaty. 1t can not be the work
of one man or of little group
of rulers who meet together in
private conferences. The struc-
ture of peace must be built. 1t
must be the work of many men.
We must have as our representa-
tives in this task the ablest men
and women America can pro-
duce, and the structure they join
in building must rest upon the
solid rock of a united American
public opinion.
I am not one of those who
despair of achieving that end. I
am utterly confident we can do
it. For years, we have had men
in Washington who were notori-
ously weak in certain branches
of arithmetic but who specialized
in division. They have played up
minor differences of opinion
among our people until the
people of other countries might
have thought that America was
cleft in two.
Few beneve America
Should Remain Isolated.
But all the while there was a.
large, growing area of agree
ment. Recently the overwhelm-
ing majesty of that broad area
of agreement has become OBJ
viouls. The Republican party can
take pride in helping to define
1t and broaden it. There are
only a few, a very few, who really
believe that America should try
to remain aloof from the world.
There are only relatively few
who believe it would be prac-
tical for America or her Allies
to renounce all sovereignty and
join a super state. I certainly
would not deny those two ex-
tremes the right to their opin-
ions; but I stand firmly with the
overwhelming majority of my
fellow citizens in that great wide
area of agreement. That agree
ment was clearly expressed by
the Republican Mackinac dec
laration and was adopted in the
foreign policy plank of this
convention,
No organization for peace will
last if it is slipped through by
stealth or trickery or the momen-
tary hypnotism of high-sounding
phrases. We shall have to work
and pray and be- patient. and !
make sacrifices to achieve a
really lasting peace. That is not
too much to ask In the name of
those who have died for the
future of our country. This is
no task to be entrusted to stub
born men, grown old and tired
and quarrelsome in Office. We
learned that in 1919.
The building OF the peace is
more than matter of interna-
tional cooperation. God has
endowed America with such
blessings as to fit her for a great
role in the world. We can only
play that role if we are strong
and healthy and vigorous as
nature has equipped us to be.
1t would be a tragedy after this
war if Americans returned from
our armed forces and failed to
find the freedom and opportunity
for which they fought. This
must be land where every man
and woman has a fair chance to
work and get ahead. Never
again must free Americans face
the specter of long-continued,
mass unemployment We Re-
publicans are agreed that full
employment shall be a first OBJ
jective of national policy. BY
full employment I mean a real
chance for every man and woman
to earn decent living at q
decent wage.
Points to 10 Million
Unemployed in 1940.
What hope does the present
administration offer here? In
1910, the year before this country
entered the war there were still
10 million unemployed. After
seven years Of unequalled power
and unparalleled spending the
New Deal had failed utterly to
solve that problem. 1t never
solved that problem. 1t was left
to be solved by war. Do we
have to have a war in order to
get jobs?
What are we now offered?
Only the dreary prospect of a
continued war economy after the
war, with interference piled on
interference and petty tyrannies
rivaling the very regimentation
against which we are now at war.
The present administration has
never solved this fundamental
problem of jobs and opportunity.
1t never can solve this problem.
1t has never even understood
what makes job 1t has never
been for full production. 1t has
lived in chattering fear of abun-
dance. 1t has specialized in cur
tallment and restriction. It has
been consistently hostile to and
abusive Of American business and
American industry, although it
is IN business and industry that
most OF us make our living.