Evening star., 1944-09-09
BY the Associated Press.

National Federation OF Womens
Republican Clubs:
1t is good to be in Louisville again
and to be the guest of Gov. Willis anc
the Federation of Republican Won
ems Clubs, I am particularly happy
to be able to attend this biennial
conference. of the women of our
party because it symbolizes the Vita
influence of the women Of America
in OUR public affairs.
Your influence is needed. Your
help Is needed in our government
It is especially needed to bring
about the thing that Is closex to
our hearts than life itself-the
achievement of a permanent peace
at the end of this war. We are will
ing to fight for it. Thousands OF
our sons have died for it. We must
be willing to struggle, to work and
to sacrifice for it in the years to
come.
Twice within Is years the Amer
lean people have gone to war to de-
fend their liberties from attacks that
had their beginnings thousands of
miles away. AS a result we Amer
leans are completely agreed upon
one proposition: We do not intend
to have a third world war. This
time must be the last time.
The Problem Ahead.
We know that we cannot make
good that resolve by any effort to
withdraw or isolate ourselves from
the rest of the world. Our problem
is not how to stay out of a future
war. Our problem is to prevent a
future war before it happens, in
stead of getting into it after it
has happened.
OF course, that is easier said than
done. Wars have had a habit of
recurring regularly through all the
centuries. But when war comes to
us, 1t brings forth a united Amer
ican effort. 1t is a nonpartisan
matter, So also must we make
peace nonpartisan matter, to be
achieved through a united effort
Only through a nonpartisan ap-
proach to the shaping of a peace
structure can America achieve unity
OF purpose, Only with unity of pur-
pose can America exercise the in
fluence in the world for which its
real strength has equipped it. am
| deeply convinced that our peace
efforts can and must become a nom
partisan effort.
This idea is already at work. !
have made a practical beginning
with Secretary Hull in bipartisan
cooperation to establish an inter-
national organization for peace and
security. Both parties are working
together today in this great labor
so that 1t can 60 forward year after
year. decade after decade, regardless
OF the party in power
Scores Pussyfooting.
And let me make this plain: /
believe that the organization of
peace is subject which should be
talked about earnestly, widely and
publicly.
We cannot meet the problems of
peace on any hush-hush, pussyfoot
basis. The steps by which this great
goal is to be approached cannot be
secret. They must not be devious
or obscure. On the contrary. they
must be methods the American peo-
pie will believe in. They must in
volve procedures and commitments
that the American people will not
merely accept for today, but will
wholeheartedly support today. to-
morrow and so years from today.
For no document we sign at the
end Of this war will, OF itself, pre-
serve peace. Peace will be preserved
only by the hard labor, the under
standing and the willingness of all
people during all the years to come
1t will take sacrifice and continuing
effort. 1t will never be something
we can take for granted. We must
wage peace as we have waged war
by the united purpose of our peo-
pie. That is why have taken un-
precedented action to promote the
nonpartisan character of the con-
1erences now in progress. Experts
OF both parties and members of the
Senate of both parties are now con-
ferring and will continue to confer
on the work in progl ess. So long
as I have anything to say about it,
l shall insist on two things. First
that the American people shall be
fully informed of our efforts to
achieve and to keep the peace. Sec
ondly, these matters shall never be
subjects for partisan political ad-
vantage by any individual. or by any
party In or out of power.
Future War Prevention.
Tonight I want to discuss a few
Of the many aspects of the problem
of preventing future wars.
There are, at once, two different
things to be done. One deals with
the immediate problems of victory
and the other with the long term
worldwide problems of organized
peace. Work on both should go
ahead right now. But they are diff
ferent problems entirely.
Let us consider first the imme-
diate problems of victory. 1 have
long and repeatedly insisted that
when the period of actual combat
is over, we must continue close CO.
operation among the four great
powers, the United States, Great
Britain. Russia and China. The dis
armament of Germany and Japan
disarmament that must render
them powerless to renew aggres-
sion-is primarily responsibility of
the victorious Allies. What must
be done to carry out that respon-
sibility?
First, the military defeat of Ger
many and Japan must be complete
and crushing. Germany must never
again suffer the delusion that she
could have won. Japan must be
utterly beaten. The people,
just the leaders-of those nations
must be taught to see and to be-
lieve that war does not pay. They
must learn in their hearts the bitter
lesson that they must not try 1t
again.