Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-12-20
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r. G. STROMBERG

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NOTE: This week am run
ming again the article on peace"
which appeared originally on
Christmas Day, 1941, just after
Pearl Harb0r. The article is ex-
ceptionally fitting for Christmas
time and, despite the fact that
1t was prepared In our early
days at war, conditions in the
world today still demand every
effort we can muster toward
establishment of q permanent
peace. The article follows:
"PeGce Leave aOith you. Ny
peace I give unto you. Not as
the aCorld giveth do / give unto
you. Let not y0iir heart be
trokbted-7por let 10 be afraid"
ST. JOHN 14:27.
WHAT is PEACE? Peace be-
W gins in the heart of the
< individual. 1t is reflected in the
harmony of family life. 1t is
the absence of strife in our po-
litical, industrial and govern
mental affairs. Peace is active.
1t is condition
What attained, not be-
Is slowed. Peace is
Peace? the ideal for
which mankind
has striven for all the centuries
of civilization. War and strife
are the result of mans failure
to use the intelligence with
which he is endowed. Greed,
ambition, jealousy, lust for
power, oppression, national
hatreds, class hatreds and the
like are the seed from which UNI
rest grows.
To attain the ideal of real
peace is the only hope of civil
hzation. The war, SO far as
America is concerned, can have
as it's only ultimate objective, a
permanent and lasting peace. No
matter how many and oft-re-
peated aims leaders might pro-
claim, they will all be sub
ordinated to the peace objective.
Unless the democracies survive
in this war the question Of
lasting peace will be beyond the
hope of civilization. We must
therefore fight to the last for
peace.
The people of the world do
not want war. The people of
America do not want war. The
people Of Maryland do not want
war. But we
People have war. 1t is
Want not of our own
Peace choice. If we
want peace we
now have to fight for it. If we
want to hand down to future
generations a country and a
world in which they can live in
peace, nationally and inter-
nationally, then we must, as did
our American forefathers, shed
our blood and spend our wealth
TO insure that peace.
The day when war ceases will
mark the beginning Of new
world era. 1t will be a time
when the peoples Of the world
will demand Of their leaders that
provisions be made to thwart
the effort of any individual or
nation to embroil the world again
in warfare. Democracy must and
will survive. The question Of set
ting up barriers against future
wars will therefore fall on the
shoulders of the diplomats Of the
great democracies. There will be
no room for bitter vindication.
Every consideration for the
future welfare Of the defeated
peoples will be
New as essential as
World the victors. This
Era the welfare Of
will be necessary
because history proves that the
seeds of war are sown in the
making of peace.
It will probably take years to
rebuild the world. 1t will be
generations ere civilization re-
gains the ground lost since 1889.
But if for the price the world
is paying the peoples Of all
countries can be assured peace
for future generations then that
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