Detroit evening times., 1945-06-20
Peace in Our Time
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(Conunuod IN
national defense IL involved.
The two nations are NO geo
graphically placed that they
have never had conflicting basic
interests.
THE Russian and the Amer
lean people instinctively like
each other. Neither wants
To use modern technology as an
instrument of war. Wo want To
raise tho living standard of our
people and we do not want TO
exploit other people,
TASK a Finn, a Lett. an ES-
tonian, a Pole. or any democrat
along the Danube or in the Bal:
kans about this one7)
Both the Russians and tho
Americans are In their different
ways cropping FOR . way Of life
which will enable tho common
man everywhere 20 get the most
good out OF modern technology.
SEES COMMON AIM
There is nothing irreconcil-
able I'm our aims and purposes
Those who so proclaim are wit
tingly or unwittingiy looking
for war. and that In my opinion
II criminal.
I'VE MUST TRADE WITH
RUSSIA TO PREVENT THE
WORLD SPLITTING INTO
TWO HOSTILE IDEOLOGI-
CAL CAMPS"
And what, Mr.. Wallace, about
the mortal peril which threatens
our soul if we sanction the rape
of small states" as you once put il ?
What about the rape OF small
Poland, the Baltic states, Finland ?
What about the Subversive pres
sures. the military and economic
forces being used upon the Bal
kanS 10 SOvietiZe them?
What about the horror OF SHE
rian prison camps where IL mil
lion Russian common men" Ian
gulsh today?
What about the firing squads Of
the NVKD?
SPLITS OWN IDEOLOGY
The voice of Mr.. Wallace is
curiously hushed we must
trade with Russia 10 prevent the
world from splitting into two
hostile theological camps he
muTmurs. And then more softly:
You cannot expect a large ma
ton 10 take any risks for the sake
OF any small nation. can you ?"
WHO'S AN APPEASER NOW =?
What makes this appeasement
curiously shocking from the moral
aspect Is that II comes at a time
when RusSia's greatest enemy,
Germany, has been destroyed.
When the men OF Munich were
driven TO appeasement. Germany
was strong and really 20 be
feared, and America was isolated,
and unaJmed.
II ever appeaSement was justi-
fed by MATERIAL CIRCUM-
STANCES il was justified at the
sbme Of Munich.
But today Russia is weak. And
America and Great Britain are
strong. 1t is all surprisingly odd
GRIEyEs FOR MAcLEIsH
Why, I ask explicitly OF Mr.
Henry Wallace, moralist and lover
Of the common man everywhere, .
If he was willing 10 fight for the
common man of Austria and
Czecho-Slovakia and OF all ol
Europe, as Hitler took over there
why is he not willing 10 fight
for the common man Of POLAND
and the Baltic states and Finland
and the countries OF Contra
Europe that do not want Stair
10 take over there
When is a principle not
principle?
1t is with considerable unhappi
ness that l personally contemplate
the case OF Mr.. Archibald Mac.
LeiSh.
/ have long thought MIR. Mac
Leish 10 be one Of the most
vibrant, sincere and eloquent
liberal voices IN our country.
America has, need OF poets ir
politics OF politics in poetry
All the best in America chal-
lPnged Walt Whitman. Walt
Whitman challenged all the best
in America.
"America's covenant" thun-
dered Whitman. lis eternally
with individuals"
SANG OF LIBERTY
So. IL seemed. thought Mr.. Mac.
Leish--until We Day. Until We
Day he too sang the road of lib
erty that all free men long Il
travel.
No finer paragraph in moderr