The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-13
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good neirhborllness, h couldn't hurt. and it might help , A drowning man wil gi&sp at 9nytnnR .o in danesr of going under, perhaps ven grasp at such revolutionary thing trying to work ct tne sermon on the Mount and psacs. y%-
 lot of people win call me crazy or chronic liar or soethn suIIaf for suggesting this but per- hRps k isn't 60 crazy. Take, for example what we did in Latin America There, Nelson Rockefeller did e pretty good job-untp be made the mistake o1 patting Argentina on the back. ., We exchenged nrofessors students and newspapermen We cot Latin Americans up here to travel around and see that ne UG.A. was full of friendly and relatively harmless people. .. This Is important The problem of pro. venting war is largely one of getting 70 Enow ana understand people. We will never have eny wef . Russian situation is much more difficult. Tn tho first place we Isolated Russia for nearly 20 years We anubbsd her dplcmaticslly, and we are now rsaping atin,s isneth without making them suspicious And tho Russians now just as suspicious Of us as tne Q. 6. Senate was of tho League Of Nations ana the World Court in the days of Woodrow Wilson. They don't want to enter any World League or Con- ference unless they have the veto powerjust exactly as the Q. g. Senate demanded the right to veto dec- sions of th World Court or the League,
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 So the problem ls partly getting the Russians to like us and trust us, and to understand that were not such bad people. J. The other day, travelled mo were about 90 Russian officers and their wives, and they were having terrible time They couldn't understand anybody much less tho porter: Their wAesAS change cars, and am certain they were of the opr- ion that this country was deliberately consprtng to cause them trouble. i. What an opportunity that would have been for Good Neighbor Agency or Department of Peacei What an opportunity to sell the USA. Instead of having strangers be uncom- foftabie. All the Q. g. government needs to do s practice the same principle that Rotary or Kiwans or the Lions Club practice every day in the week. When prominent stranger comes to town they show him around They believe in their town. and make him believe in it
 We have great country end hospltable people
 five in it but we are woefuy lacking in selling our- selves to the world. <. A Department Of Peace could arrange to get several thousad Russian stu. dents over here cholarship exchange basis, sell them on the USA The same could Dc done with professors. We need to study the Russian language. and they the English, . It wasn't until the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Fund provided for thousands of Chinese students to study in this country that we got SO friendly with the Chinese Why not do the same with Russa2 ,s3sas 4r la
 Tn other words, there is no use doing lot of wshful thinking about peace unless we get out and practice t. For the cost of one battleship we paid the expenses of ROckefellers Latin American Good NOigbcr Committee for four full years It was dirt cheap If we can head off the war with Russia that the brass hats are talking about and secretly pres pairing for. not only will 1t be cheap but 1t will save civilization . Now that we are about to drown, let's grasp at the last straw We have tried every thing else from pltchforkS to atom bombs, and each time we have found that they won't work.