Evening star., 1946-09-13
BY the kssoeio,ed Press

oPbftoofC Oy GftC NuttOHut StGt-
sens' Political Action Committee
and the Independent Citizens
Committee OF the Arts, Sciences
and Professions:
The Way to Peace.
First off, I want to give my own
personal Endorsement to the candi-
dates chosen by the Democratic
party and the American Labor party
in New York James Mead long
has been one of the ablest public
servants in Washington-a constant,
faithful and intelligent proponent
of the New Deal of Franklin Roose-
welt. The Senate will miss him
but Albany needs him. He will
make a great governor-worthy of
the tradition of Smith, Roosevelt
and Lehman.
Herbert Lehman knows full well
the problems and the opportunities
facing the State of New York, the
United States and the United Ma
tionS. His great heart and great
mind will be increasingly useful
when he is member of the United
States Senate
Victory for Mead and Lehman in
November will mean long stride
in the peoples progress.
Tonight I want to talk about
peace-and how to get peace. Never
have the common people of all
lands SO longed for peace. Yet,
never in time of comparative
peace have they feared war so much
Up till now, peace has been mega
tive and unexciting. War has been
positive and exciting. Far too often,
hatred and fear, intolerance and
deceit have had the upper hand
over love and confidence, trust and
joy. Far too often, the law of
nations has been the law of the
jungle, and the constructive spirit
ual forces of the Lord have bowed
to the destructive forces of Satan.
Atom Bomb No Security.
During the past year or so, the
significance of peace has been in
creased immeasurably by the atom
bomb, guided missiles and airplanes'
which soon will travel as fast as
sound. Make no mistake about
| lt-another war would hurt the
United States many times as much
as the last war. We cannot rest in
the assurance that we invented the
atom bomb-and therefore that this
agent of destruction will work best
Tor us. He who trusts in the atom
bomb will sooner or later perish by
the atom bomb-or something worse.
l say this as one who steadfastly
backed preparedness throughout the
30s. We have no use for namby-
pamby pacifism. But we must re-
alize that modern inventions have
now made peace the most exciting
thing in the world-and we should
be willing to pay a just price for
peace. II modern war can cost us
400 billion, we should be willing and
happy to pay much more for peace.
But certainly the cost of peace is
to be measured not in dollars but
in the hearts and minds of men.
The price of peace-for us and for
every nation in the worlds the
price of giving up prejudice, hatred,
fear and ignorance.
Let's get down to cases here at
home.
First we have prejudice, hatred, fear
and Ignorance of certain races. The
recent mass lynching in Georgia was
not merely the most unwarranted,
brutal act of mob violence In the
United States in recent years; 1t
was also an illustration of the kind
of prejudice that makes war newt
able.
Must Eliminate Racism.
Hatred breeds hatred. The doc
trine of racial superiority produces
desire to get even on the part
of its victims. If we are to work
for peace in the rest of the world,
we here in the United States must
eliminate racism from our unions,
our business organizations, our edu-
cational institutions and our en-
ployment practices Merit alone
must be the measure of man.
Second. in payment for peace, we
must give up prejudice, hatred, fear
and ignorance in the economic
world. This means working ern-
eStly, day after day, for a larger
volume Of world trade. 1t means
helping undeveloped areas of the
world to industrialize themselves
with the help of American techni-
cal assistance and loans.
We should welcome the oppor-
tunity to help along the most rapid
possible industrialiZation in Latin
America, China, India and the Near
East. For as the productivity of
these people increases, our exports
will increase.
We all remember the time. not
so long ago, when the high tariff
protectioniSts blindly opposed any
aid TO the industrialization of Can
ada. But look at our exports toj
Canada today On a per capita
basis our Canadian exports are seven
times greater than our exports to
Mexico.
supported the British loan of
almost four billion dollars because
I knew that without this aid in
the rehabilitation of its economy
the British government would have
been forced to adopt totalitarian
trade methods and economic war
fare of sort which would have
closed the markets of much of the
world to American exports.
Should Aid Backward Nations.
For the welfare of the American
people and the world it is even
more important to invest four bill
lion dollars in. the ndustrializa ton
of undeveloped areas in the So
called backward nations, thereby
promoting the long-term stability
that comes from an ever increasing
standard of living. This would not
only be good politics and good
morals. 1t would be good busi-
ness.
The United States is the worlds
great creditor nation. And low
tariffs by. creditor nations are a