Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-27
It's News
To Me
By 0. ]. Pecord
BIG NEWS

BIG NEWS
Biggest news the week s of course Francisco
conference from which will be patterned the shape of things to
Even gets way newspapers from
coao-coas prominently displaying series of gruesome
pictures German concentration captured by
the rapidly advancing Allied armies.
Now not to question the reliability of these pic
to doubt for moment that the atrocities which they
depict real and not propaganda At the tme
wonder if conference which supposed the world
for peace and settlement OF international disputes wnou re-
sorting arms Will not be motvaed by the sentiments wncn
What these pictures really nothing 1892
shortly after Hitler came to power yes even pefore ne came
power Germany had made the apegoats of
the Naz They blamed for everything from the first World
learned professions No
evil was too great to hang upon the Jew.
into which Jews labor leaders liberals known suspected
enemies of Nazism and other victims of Her insane system
systematically beaten starved shot, quartered
otherwise tortured killed. rendered mentally
by the crueies they were forced to undergo
AS far back 1888 American periodicals carrying
about Naz atrocities and crying out that something should
be done put Boycotts goods
in bring bear the German
government but the only result obtained was to make the
seizures torrings and killings more difficult to discover be-
cause of the stealth exercised by the Nazis.
GOVERNMENTS AWARE
Governments the nations of what
going Germany, including the of the
ton and the growing strength of its capable army but the gov
selves another World War would
leaders in England and America stuck their necks
tionsm your philosophy which swa
lowed hook line and snker by millions of people who SHE'D
away bloodshed with deepeated and natural
fear. . ,
indeed they who read the correctly and had
what in their minds The same press
which today euogig the late President Roosevelt gasped
his Chicago Quantne the Aggressor Nations speech to
while great journalists went
to almost the of Gemanys march into Poland there
Today, millions of Americans home armed forces
Europe the Pacific viewing the actual results of
its cruee and atrocities shake their heads and ask them
selves the question - "Why?"
Why there be war? Why must nations periodically
their differences by violence and kill
ing Why is that and nations cannot live in peace But
ask in vain and for something which in their inner
hearts thaVh no nj eve
LASTING PEACE
While tanks still rumble dealing destruc
ton, while KILL while city after city into shape
representing the nations of the world seated at
conference table to talk of peace.
Peace lasting the aim and hope the world yet
certain that somewhere in this world there people
who have desire for because their hearts and minds
which cannot be satisfied by peaceful methods
While men ponder upon peace the basis for future wars
look economic facts in the with
deal with those facts sincerity and justice there be
lasting peace.
lasting peace as long as there are millions
of unemployment employment at starvation There
be lasting long up
and haveno nations There be no lasting long
great nations small composed of have havenot
populations To expect in the face of njuces
is to hope in vain.
And in the face of the realities present the history
of the past and the expectations of the future
who today skepcal future They are
most part, slenced but convinced to utter word
despair and show lack of confidence almost
our country where today people nu
ence with reaconary turn of mind laying groundwork
to set white gans black nationality group against nationality
group Gentle against jew Protestant against Catholic worker
against worker labor leader against leader and
doing forward their selfish interest.
And in this setting in world boodshed horror and
scramble for pelf
at peace and better world.