The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
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| 1t is easy to see that the strike
wave that has been knocking Eu-
ropeon production to smithereens
has been one Of political strikes.
Economic demands have been
coupled with them, Of course, and
economic advance is sorely needed,
but the object Of the strikes has
been revolution.
Revolution, in and Of itself, is
not to be condemned. Too many
times in history revolution has been
justified and Americans are the
first to know that.
But justifiable revolution is rev.
olution that frees men and lets
them set their feet in the pathways
Of freedom.
There is no morality that can
justify the revolution that leads to
enslavement.
Revolutionary efforts engineered
by communism are intended to
lead to enslayement under the ban
ner of dictatorship.
How tragic that after two world
wars to defend freedom great
masses Of men can be led into the
wild and treacherous ways of com
munist Dictatorship
There was a time when we in the I
United States seemed to be head 4
ed for strikes having political OBJ /
jectives as their true purpose. As 1
Of now we are out Of that piece Of
woods.
We could get back into it again,
but only if we go to sleep at the
switch.
OF course our greatest guaran
tee against political strikes is in
the fact that we can get any poll
tical result we want just by vot-
ing, unless we allow our election
machinery to be hog-tied, which is
in itself dictatorship.
But back to the strikes of Eu-
rope. The strikes we have been wit
Messing are the first big blows
against the Marshall Plan. They
have been battles in the cold war
against the United States.
What do you think of that! But
that's how it is.
The soviets have pledged every
effort to defeat the Marshall Plan
and now we behold some of the
tactics.
The cost to France and Italy of {;
these strikes has been terrific. For
the present the French and Italian {
people will suffer more acutely.
And in the end the United States {
probably will have to send more I
food and. other relief supplies. I
But the soviets never count the {
cost items of misery of other peo- s
piles. They will go to any lengths |
to sacrifice the welfare of other {
people, if only communist dictator f
ship can be advanced. t
Not only that but the soviet die I
tators don't care a hoot what sac '
rifices their own Russian people 1
have to undergo. t
Bow the knee or get it in the h
neck-on in the back. t
1t is fair to wonder how the il
world, or so much of it, ever got n
as crazy and disjointed as it is.
But it is as it is and the great q
between the light of free q
1om and the submersion of dicta- r
.orship moves toward its epic eli !,
max. n
How long it will be before demo- =
.racy rises to face the sun unchal- I.
enged we cannot know, nor can-we o
xnow by what means or in what =
t will reach that climatic time. n
We watch with grave concern the q
turmoil in Europe today. We OBJ .
serve even EllSi Sidliu, SllduCi VI tOA n
france and parliamentary govern II
nent, shaken and sorely tired. l.
We see the Vaccinations of COM
nunism, shaking its way through
lations that once stood proud and "
whose masses even now must as a
)ire to freedom. y
Italy, at least, should have had =. ~
nough of dictatorship. France :, :,
hould have had enough of the :
hedding of blood. =. :.
1t is to be hoped that militant - T.
morality will arise and sweep away =, -
he fear of dictatorship. - =.
Our own stake in the European u
utcome is nearly as great as the ~
take of the Europeans themselves, ~ ~
or loss of freedom there means u
hat enslavement comes that much {:
carer and engulfs just that much q
nore. :, ~
If ever isolation was possible
hat day surely has gone from Us. :"
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