The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-19

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 Dear Mrs. R.: have your let ter wondering wily you should sacrifice the sons you SO carefully taught not to hate or to hurt, on a bloody beachnead where every minute they must hate and hurt in order to survive.
 I don't blame you for asking these questions. Thousands of other mothers are asking them. wish that I could give an ade- Quate answer.
 You say that you write and tell your sons that, after it's over, life will be the same and we'll all be happy, but that, deep in your heart you know 1t won't be, for there will be more wars and more bloodshed all over again.
 Naturally you would expect hard-boiled and cynical newspa- pcrman, trained to look under rocks for all the scamy side of official life, to agree with you that we will have more wars and that your boy on the NOr- mandy beachhead is making his sacrifice in vain. But sOme- how or other, don't agree. Somehow or other, have SEeaking suspicion that things are not going to be so bad, and that we may be able to pre- uAs what his father had to do in Normandy.
 Maybe 1 am too much of an optimist, but 1t seems to me, look ing back, that we made lot of progress toward permanent peace between the last war and this. In the end, We failed. But there are a lot of things you do that fail the first time or even sev- eral times, before you finally make the grade.
 KELLOGG'S DREAM OR PEACE
 One of these tries which failed was the Kellogg Treaty to outlaw war. old Frank B. Kellogg, who wrote that treaty was just an. ordinary American citizen from Minnesota, not much different from the rest of us. He was Cool idge's Secretary of State, and not a very brilliant one. But he had one great dream-to outlaw war.
 And he kept pecking away at 1t, and hammering the idea home on the unwilling governments of Eu- rope, until the people of Europe too strong for their governments, and they just had to sign the Kellogg Past.
 I was with Kellogg when he sailed to Europe to sign his pact, stood with him in the Quai d'Orsay in Paris when. with a great gold pen, given him by the people of Havre Ia city now under lombard ment), he scratched his sigma ture to the document which carried the hopes and prayers of millions.
 Of course, many of the diplo- mats who also used that golden pen on that hot August after noon in 1928 had no sympathy with the hopes and ideals of the people they represented-among them, Count Uchida, whose im- perturable face gave no hint that four years later he, as Foreign Minister of Japan, would be snapping his fingers at the treaty he had signed.
 Cynical newsmen watching the ceremony remarked that this would be another case of the League of Nations-an instrument of peace devised by the United States but which the United States would abandon. There, however, they were wrong.
 Frank B. Kellogg, of course, was ahead of his time. But so were most of our great leaders Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln. The history of progress is con- Stant succession of men whom are ahead of their time. So Kel- loggs dream failed.
 STIMSON'S FIGHT
 AGAINST WAR
 However, 1t did not fail until 1t had been used - and almost successfully by another man also ahead of his time, the man who succeeded Kellogg.
 Henry L. Stimson, Secretary Of State under Hoover, was one of the few men in high position who then saw clearly signs of ap- preaching wars, and who figured that, if the world could head off the minor wars in the Chaco be- tween Paraguay and Bolivia, in Siberia between Russia and China,