Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-05-24
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By
P. G. STROMBERG

sHE TINE is upon us when
the purposes for which this
long, terrible and costly war are
being decided. Unlike the Peace
Conference following the First
World War when representatives
of the victor nations gathered at
Versailles to impose terms of
peace as we'll as
Enthusiasm develop a future
Lacking At security the Con-
San Francisco erence of
United Nations
at San Francisco is endeavoring
to set up a system Of world Sc
curity but has no direct respon-
sibility of ultimate terms of
peace to be imposed on the Ger
mans and japanese.
Glamour of the early days of
the conference is gone. Hard
word, committee assignments,
pickering over details, are the
potion of delegates remaining on
the scene. Many of the top
notch men of various delegations
have left for home. Thus the
working out of the peace formula
is left to those who have lost
their guidance. 1t is time for the
people of the world especially
for the people of the United
States) to let our delegates know
the interest we all have in the
outcome of the San Francisco
Conference.
Unless we get a security
agreement written into the spa
cifie charter which viii guar
antee peace to our future Gas
.fa Is human md standing can
accomplish such an fdeaD all the.
effort, suffering, sacrifice and ex-
pense we have invested into this
war will have been in vain. All
the dives of the thousands of our
young men will
TOp-NOtch have been given
Delegates in vain. All the
Going Home hopes and aspi-
rations of mil
lions Of US at home will have
been shattered. All the faith we
have evidenced and the willing
ness with which we have followed
the courses of the war will give
way to disappointment and
doubt.
1t is natural that we are tired
of war. But our delegates at
San Francisco need encourage
ment from the folks at home.
Only by expressions of hope and
insistence on securing NOW
those things which will give US
peace can we register our feel
ings. Developments at San Fran
cisco indicate that there is need
for injection of the 1941-1942
serum of the peace ideal. We
did not know then just what
form world security plan would
take but we did know that it
was PEACE FIRST and all
other considerations second for
which we were willing to pledge
our lives and our fortunes.
In the changing times (chang-
ing so fast in war developments)
other considerations are brought
to the fore. Yet Peace is still
the only real objective we have
had in this war. Let it be said
that we fought because we were
attacked; or that we were forced
to fight because war was de-
clared on us by both Germany
and Italy Immediately following
that Pearl Harbor; or that we
entered the war on the side of
the democracies in our self-in-
terest; or that
Peace Is Still we helped the
The Real free peoples of
Objective the world ward
off loss of our
freedom and liberty to German
and Japanese tyrants; we still
come back to the one word which
holds all of the reasons for our
participation in the war -
PEACE.
With the right kind of plan
for maintaining peace through
out the world all our sacrifices
will have been justified. We
must always remember that
those families, where one or sew
eral members have given their
lives, will ever feel that the boy
who fell in Europe, Africa, Asia
or on one of the many Pacific
Islands was to them the essence
of life itself. They will ever
feel that their sacrifice can be