The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-30
SEA OF FLAMES SWEEP OVER YOKOHAMA


CCllllilk ltStll Wltll uIdltlliS opCSliiS and detailed peace terms. Its only concern is to set up the machinery for world cooperation in the main tenance of peace and the preven- tion of war. The immediate ob- jectiye of the conference is to draft the actual charter of United Nations security organization to be submitted for approval to all the member countries.
 "The American people must not delude themselves by wishful think ing. For mankind is not yet ready to accept the only real formula for everlasting peace-one which is al- most two thousands years old.
 Force Needed
 "The American Legion is dedi- cated by repeated national conven- tion actions to the principle of an association of free nations, armed with the force needed to keep the peace. and cloaked with the au- thority to use that force.
 But the American Legion out of its realistic knowledge of war goes further than that. It declares with all the urgency at its com- mand, that America must do more than express it's willingness for en- during peace. As nation we must demonstrate that we are both will ling and able to preserve that peace.
 ''TThe time has come when we must show, in the sacred names of all our hero dead, that we are just as determined to fight for peace as we are to fight for vic- tory in this war!
 'The finest contribution we can make toward bringing about inter- national teamwork for preserving peace, is strong America. Such an America will be proof to all the world of the success of de- mocracy in protecting the rights and liberties of it's citizens and up- holding it's responsibilities as a leader of nations.
 Weak Military Deserted
 Tn the minds of most of us it is umthinkable that we would adopt any other course. But say to you that there are those among us who even now, with the victory not yet completely won, who are advocating methods which would return our nation to the pitifully weak state we were in at the beginning of this war.
 T do not doubt the sincerity of most of them but I do question their logic when they take the po- sition that strong and adequately armed force will make America warlike and will tend to embroil us in wars.
 May I say this? The small, pitt ful and inadequate armed force such as that with which we found ourselves at the onset of the present struggle has never kept us out of war and never will.
 Tt was this condition which en- abIed the Jap to practically destroy our entire Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, seize Guam, defeat us at Bataan and Corregidor, take the Philippines, bomb Dutch Harbor and actually invade a part of the North American Continent by oc- cupying Attu and Kiska. 1t en- abled German submarines to sink our tankers in the Atlantic in plain sight of our coastline and many others. This method has been the chief cause which led to the last two world conflicts-a weak and ineffective merican Republic when grave dangers threatened the peace of the world
 Wage Peace
 The nations of the world re- spect another nation at the Peace Conference in direct proportion to the relative might of the armed forces of that nation on the battle field. It is high time then that we should give a trial to the other mthod and in time of peace main- tain an armed force sufficiently strong to preserve that peace. We should be prepared to wage peace with the same courage and willing ness for sacrifice as we wage war
 These people have always op- posed support for strong Army and Navy. They opposed the Ma tional Guard and Reserve Corps They belittled the Home Guard ir time of war and now we find this same group opposing universa military training.
 Military Training
 The American Legion advocate: universal military training in timt of peace in cooperation with oul existing means of national defense because it will be a means of ad. vancing along both courses of oul national self-interest.
 Our late President Roosevelt