Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-13
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GETS THERE FIRST
Community Church
(KanSas City) News)


We are nearing the end of a war and
we find our allies the Russians calling
out to us to Hurry up Come on; be IN
at the finish" Apparently it is difficult
for us to accomplish. Russia has the
head start on us. They are headed
straight for Berlin. We shall have to
hurry up if we are going to meet them AT
the borders of that city, and we don
know whether it is humanity possible at
all for US to keep up with their steady
march and conquest.
No one of us has ever seen, heard or
read of in all human history anything
that appeals to the imagination as has
the Russian advance of recent months.
We cannot but have been thrilled by this
irresistible advance of two million men,
yes, and women, fighting their way for
ward. like a great tidal wave of the
ocean; like a thousand miles of BULLDOG
ers digging up the soil, stopped by moth
ing: thousand miles of huge tanks and
trucks and airplanes going forward
thousand miles of combines moving down
fields in front of them, binding and
threshing the grain all at once. And
there is nothing that will stop it. 1t will
roll right on to Berlin; it can't wait for
us. 1t is going to get there first. Maybe
we may be across the Rhine by that time.
We may be past the Ruhr Valley and the
Saar by that time. We may be half way
from the German south border to Berlin
in the north, but our Russian allies will
already be there.
Well, what of it? AS soon as they get
there of course the whole thing will blow
up and there will be no obstacles for us.
We can go right straight forward, and
we will certainly go. Russia may wait
few days for us before she does anything
very drastic, except to seize the city, set
up temporary and emergency govern
ment and begin to straighten out the
affairs of the German FETCH but we shall
join her in the meantime.
We have learned confidence enough
surely by now to trust this greatest of
our allies We ought to have learned, if
we haven't by this time, that we are all
working to the same end; that Russia
with her youth is working along with the
British empire with her age, and that
she is working in harmony with America
in her middle years. We are all of one
mind and one purpose, and we must
understand each other. The more thor
oughly we understand each other, the
more likely we shall reach an adequate
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lasting peace. The time of decision is
right here right now. The world is at
least half f-heartedly determined that we
will make some kind of organization
which will preserve the peace and not
bring on the third world war. The aspir
alton is well nigh unanimous, not only
in the occident but the orient as we'll,
for some kind of parliament of men.
Unless America and the Soviet Union
get together, stay together and under
stand each other and work together,
there will be another world war, and we
will all be in it. So now is the time to get
ready 1t is none too soon. The masses
of the people should be thinking and
thinking with all their might of an ade-
quate solution.
A large percentage Of women workers
are only waiting for their sweethearts
or husbands TO return from military
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