Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-06-28
L Might Be.
|Wrong--But
P. G. sTRoMBERG

Mote: With, / hope, pardon
able pride, I am reproducing IN
this column today the first Grti-
Gle which appeared under this
heading MAY %, 1940), am
doing so because I cannot e1-
press any better the hopes of
future America. The San From
cisco Conference has ended Nth
fifty nations signing a charter
for a0orId peace.
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May %, 1910
WITH THE WAVE of pa
" triotic fear and fervor sweep
ing this country today that it
seems well to pause and analyze
the basis on which the World
War ended.
The Armistice was based on
President Wilson's famous Four
teen Points. The World looked
to Wilson and America for lead
ership. The outstanding clause
of the Fourteen Points was the
Wartime Presidents declaration
for League of Nations to out
law war. The Peace Conference
at Versailles re
Wilson's volved around
Famous the American
IA Points delegation. Be
cause of devotion
to his ideal, Wilson was forced
to make compromises with hard,
designing politicians whose sole.
desire was to impose restric-
tons so severe that the seeds of
the present conflict were then
planted. That was the part
played by the British and French
politicians. But when we came
to the American side we find
men who, posing as great pa
triots and isolationists, led
successful campaign against the
League Of Nations. The result
was that America refused to
take her part alongside other
nations of the world in just
effort to prevent future wars.
A natural weakening of the
League of Nations was thus
caused at the outset by the re-
fusal of the proponent to be-
come "involved". affts I
Who is there in America today
who will acclaim the 1919 and
1920 isolationists as great Amer
lean patriots? Who is there
who will argue that the holocaust
in Europe today could not have
and would not have been avoid
ed had there been a World force
Of police to say, Nay! Nayl?
Who will doubt that had the
Peace Conference delegates been
more the patriots with vision
and less practical politicians bent
n n ~, a.1ta+o
More Vision, gain, the gener-
Would Have alton now come
Spared Misery into manhood
and ,womanhood
would have been spared all the
misery, destruction, suffering
and expense forced on them
today.
But we don't have the peace
Of which the martyred Wilson
dreamed. Instead we Americans
are faced with the loss of our
first lines of defense THE Brit
ish and French armies and
navies), and suddenly are awak-
eDed to the fact that, much as
we desire peace and as much as
our leaders have preached peace,
we must spend billions of dollars
to prepare ourselves to fight for
peace. And we will prepare. We
will prepare in more ways than
the building of airplanes, bat
tleships, anti-aircraft guns and
mechanical land equipment. We
viii prepare our people to under
stand that America means to
defend American doctrines, meth
DDS and liberties from within
as well as from without.
It's time for the complacent
Americans to realize that the
ideal conditions under which we
live must be
1--WE Want paid for. AS
Peace So Senator Carter
Earnestly" Glass said. "The
American citi-
zen must do more than eat,
sleep, and go to the movies"
We Want Peace. We want
peace SO earnestly that we are
willing to make any sacrifice to
maintain it. To maintain it
means that we must be ready to