The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-21

ter lessons of the
past few years, aA
the old cry of "Warmonger," is again
hurled at the great mans unbowed
head.
Actually, what did Mr.. Churchill
suggest? Nothing more belligerent
than that the two great democracies
of the world stand together in
friendship, to make good their
promises to the rest of world and
| by the imposing spectacle of their
combined strength assure to all
people just and lasting peace.
We fought a bloody, heartbreak-
ing war to protect ourselves from
being completely surrounded by
totalitarian world At the time we
entered the War-through the back
door and under the impetus of an
attack that practically destroyed
our entire naval strength in one
Observation-Disclosures Russia was al
ready locked in a death struggle
with her former ally, Totalitarian
Germany. She was making a great
fight, aided by such material as we
were giving her under 1end-lease.
We were also furnishing lend-lease
aid to the British-not, in either
case in an access of altruism, but
because we had to buy time and it
was the cheapest way we could do
it. The reconversion that we had
done to meet Russian and British
contracts was of inestimable value
to us during the dark days following
Pearl Harbor.
The fact that we landed on the
same side of the war as Russia was
certainly not because we had any,
thing in common with the Russian
form of government. Now that the
war is over and the Atomic Age is
prematurely and unhappily upon us,
we are faced with the spectacle of
our former ally busily engaged in
doing exactly what we fought a war
to prevent Naturally-and not un-
Ireasonably-distruStfulI of the rest
of the world, Mother Russia, slightly
drunk with victory and power, is
running wild over the major portion
of Europe.
Already she has set up her own
puppet governments in Ruthenia,
Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Roumania,
Czechoslavakia, Austria, Jugoslavia
and other points from the Baltic to
the Adriatic. She has completely and
shockingly looted Manchuria, she
has not only refused to quit Iran
in accordance with her agreement
under the provisions of UNO, but she
has moved fresh troops into that
area, and apparently, not satisfied
with this extraordinary gesture to-
ward world peace, she is massing
crack tank battalions on the Turkish
border-Sherman tanks, too, please
note in passing.
The excuse that she is extending
her sphere of influence to protect
her own borders, won't work. The
Atomic Bomb eliminates every
border" in the world. Russia is
operating behind her curtain of
from, as Churchill aptly put it, to
extend Communism in every nook
and Granny of the territory that she
has overrun. What the people of
the countries involved may want
will have nothing to do with What
they get-the Russians don't OPP
crate that way. They know what
they want andsthey obviously know
how to get it.
The question that concerns US is
this-did we fight to promote the
growth of Communism or did we
fight because we believe that the
peoples of the earth should have
the right to choose their own form OIL
government?
Are we going to let Russia get !
away with it while we sink once
more into the apathy and moral
laxity that lead directly to the war
we appear not to have finished?
Are we going to repeat our past