Detroit evening times., 1945-06-19
Peace in Our Time
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cepted them were scorned and up
braided before all right minded
and God fearing men as "ap-
peasers."
The national policy peace in
our timei which sought TO avoid
war between major powers by
surrendering. or sanctioning the
surrender. of any land or any part
OF the sovereignty of a weaker
neighboring power. TO a greater
| power which was intent on getting
II with or without war. was a pol
icy which all American liberals
condemned not only as immoral.
but as in the end opposed to the
nations interests which adopted II.
Might" they said, will never
make right"
This is moral principle. eter-
nal, immutable--AND SOUND.
Do you remember the eloquent
scorn which was heaped on any
American who claimed, at the time
Of Munich, that there was still
room In the world for the United
States 10 live side by side with a
strong totalitarian power, whose
ideology differed from ours, but
who, IL was plain, did not really
want 10 tangle with the u S. A.,
either militarily or economically?
BERATED BY LIBERALS
Do you remember how the lib
erals berated such Americans
and when they did not accuse
them OF being Fascists, or simply
ostrich-like isolationists. storrned
that their moral sense was def
cient, that they were material
ists"--that not only was II in the
end economically impossible TO DO
BUSINESS with a totalitarian
power. but that by the mere eff
fort OF trying TO do business with
a totalitarian power we would
weaken our democratic concepts,
and in the end we would grow to-
talltarian minded. too?
Indeed the theme you cant do
business with tyranny was one of
the most convincing and SOUND
EST arguments the liberals had.
Do you remember the speeches
from pulpit and rostrum, from
cabinet members offices, from the
halls Of the Capitol itself, that
melted Americans who loved I'm
dIvidual freedom. TO view with
intense alarm and repagnance
the universal threat 10, individual
freedom embodied in the very
principle OF dictatorship itself?
ROOSEVELT STATEMENT
DO you remember President F.
ID. Roosevelt's statement that
RUSSIA IS A DICTATORSHIP
AS ABSOLUTE AS ANY ON
EARTH?"
Do you remember how they told
US that should Europe ever be
dominated by one strong totali-
tarlan power, that that very day
freedom, individual freedom for
masses OF Europeans would be
gone forever, and that the dark
ages would descend on all the
world!
Do you remember how these
brave and clear thinking liberals
pointed out that there was that
In totalitarianism itself-the basic
evil-which made mass violence.
brutality, concentration camps.
slave labor, firing squads. and so
on, inevitable methods OF proce-
dure; and that no materialiStic or
economic arguments about the
dynamic economic qualities" the
chronological progress, the height.
ened LIKING standards W n
totalitarianism did plainly offer 10
its citizens. could conceal the
ugly underlying fact that all these
gains were made at the expense
OF the individuals personal and
political freedom and spiritual
growth?
TOOK 4. =. INTO WAR
Yes, the arguments OF the lib
ersls-from the days of Munich
until America entry into the war
an entry that was secured
largely because of these very argu-
ments-were sound and noble
arguments, worthy OF the ears Of
all free and open-minded men.